I don't think I'm going to wade through all of these spurious etymologies but there is one that leaps out at me.
So no, we don't get the word 'crone' from the curved shape of a stereotype's spine.
And couldn't all those blades be curved because that's a more efficient shape for slicing meat or whatever?
Online Etymology Dictionary Wrote:crone (n.)
late 14c., from Anglo-French carogne, from Old North French carogne, term of abuse for a cantankerous or withered woman, literally "carrion," from Vulgar Latin *caronia (see carrion).
So no, we don't get the word 'crone' from the curved shape of a stereotype's spine.
And couldn't all those blades be curved because that's a more efficient shape for slicing meat or whatever?
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