cruse
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- 7
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- 9
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Definition of cruse
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(archaic)A small jar used to hold liquid, such as oil or water.
“With a thought I tooke for Maudline & a cruse of cockle pottage. with a thing thus tall, skie blesse you all: I befell into this dotage.”
“He had dipped ungenerously into a generous mother’s purse; basely and recklessly spilt her little cruse.”
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noun
-
(archaic)A small jar used to hold liquid, such as oil or water.
“With a thought I tooke for Maudline & a cruse of cockle pottage. with a thing thus tall, skie blesse you all: I befell into this dotage.”
“He had dipped ungenerously into a generous mother’s purse; basely and recklessly spilt her little cruse.”
- (uncommon)An oil lamp; a crusy.
name
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Clay County, Illinois, United States.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English crouse, from Old English crūse (“jar, cruse”), from Proto-West Germanic *krūsā, from Proto-Germanic *krūsǭ, *krūsaz (“jar, pot, collar, jug”). Cognate with German Krause (“pot with a lid”), Icelandic krús (“jar, jug”). Merged with Middle English croo (“pot, pitcher”), from Old English crōg (“crock, pitcher, vessel”). More at crock.
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