Re: Accurate history vs. Fish stories

crouch
c.1394, probably from O.Fr. crochir "become bent, crooked," from croche =
"hook."

Peter Stewart...

You have evidently missed or forgotten a post of mine: the dating "c.1394"
is due to the confused chronology of the earliest source, in Latin,
referring to this matter and placing it in the parliament of January 1394.
The OED connected this to "crouchback", from conflating it with another
source written in English, but actually the author referred to a broken back
("dorsum...fractum").

Peter Stewart