Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An obsolete or dialectal form of curdle.
  • To crowd; huddle.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb obsolete To curdle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To curdle.

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Examples

  • “It will not suffer milk to cruddle in the stomach, and therefore it is put in milk that is drunke… Spearmint” Gaius Plinius Secundus - Naturalis Historia 77CE

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  • “It will not suffer milk to cruddle in the stomach, and therefore it is put in milk that is drunke… Spearmint” Gaius Plinius Secundus - Naturalis Historia 77CE

    Mint and its Health Effects 2007

  • The matter thrown out was a stream of metal and minerals, rendered liquid by the fierceness of the fire, which boiled up at the mouth like water at the head of a great river; and having run a little way, the extremity thereof began to crust and cruddle, turning into large porous stones, resembling cakes of burning sea-coal.

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