pen or sty for animals
• (n.) A kind of weir or dam for trapping salmon; also, a hovel.
Cruive (kruv) noun A kind of weir or dam for trapping salmon; also, a hovel. [ Scot.]
A cruive is a trap for fish, especially salmon, consisting of a sort of hedge of stakes on a tidal river or the sea-beach. When the tide flows the fish swim over the wattles, but are left by the ebb.