cruse
See also: Cruse
English edit
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Etymology edit
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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Noun edit
cruse (plural cruses)
- (religion, heraldry or obsolete) A small jar used to hold liquid, such as oil or water.
- c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):
- 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.
- With a thought I tooke for Maudline
- 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 21, in The History of Pendennis. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
- He had dipped ungenerously into a generous mother’s purse; basely and recklessly spilt her little cruse.
- c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):
- (now uncommon) An oil lamp; a crusy.
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small jar
Further reading edit
- “cruse”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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Old English edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *krūsā.
Pronunciation edit
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crūse f
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Declension of cruse (weak)