crost

English

Noun

crost (plural crosts)

1. Eye dialect spelling of cross.
   • 1901, Stewart Edward White, The Claim Jumpers^[1]:

     Them claims marked with a crost belongs to th' Company.

Verb

crost

1. (archaic or poetic) simple past tense 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.

Anagrams

• torcs