crost
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɒst
Noun edit
crost (plural crosts)
- Pronunciation spelling of cross.
- 1901, Stewart Edward White, The Claim Jumpers[1]:
- Them claims marked with a crost belongs to th' Company.
Verb edit
crost
- (archaic) simple past and past participle of cross
- 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5[2]:
- […] I did espie Where towards me a sory wight did cost*, Clad all in black, that mourning did bewray, And Iacob staffe in hand devoutly crost, Like to some pilgrim come from farre away.