Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small earthenware container, such as a pot or jar, for holding liquids.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An earthen pot or bottle; any small vessel for liquids.
Wiktionary
- n. A small jar used to hold liquid, such as oil or water.
- n. heraldry An oil lamp or similar emblem.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A cup or dish.
- n. A bottle for holding water, oil, honey, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. small jar; holds liquid (oil or water)
Etymologies
- From Middle English crouse, from Old English crūse ("jar, cruse"), from Proto-Germanic *krūsōn, *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. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English crouse, perhaps from Middle Dutch cruyse, pot. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The carrying off of the spear and the cruse was a couch of almost humour, and it, with the ironical taunt flung across the valley to”
“The little oil in the cruse is a pledge and earnest of the dainties he shall have in the kingdom of God, and this makes him content.”
“Of course, there is the more familiar story in the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Shabbat 21b, telling us of the priests entering the Temple precincts and finding but one cruse of holy oil marked with the seal of the High Priest and miraculous eight-day flame in the menorah.”
The Huffington Post: Rabbi Barry A. Kenter: Hanukkah: Not Quite The Jewish Christmas
“To each and everyone one of us in entrusted the sacred task of caring for the cruse that will yet illuminate the world.”
The Huffington Post: Rabbi Barry A. Kenter: Hanukkah: Not Quite The Jewish Christmas
“What vital piece of information is missing: Just who was it that hid the cruse?”
The Huffington Post: Rabbi Barry A. Kenter: Hanukkah: Not Quite The Jewish Christmas
“Cruse provides free support to anyone affected by bereavement, cruse.org.uk”
“But of course, my dad still defends the subsidies, because he says that it “costs” oil companies money to get cruse oil and turn it into gasoline ….”
“Camp for a few days (three nights usually enough YUK YUK but did stay 4 once) cruse around on skis. .and hunt small stuff maybe ice fish.”
Rifle Shooting's 10 Most Significant Developments of the Decade
“Elaborations on Keynes: Friedman's and Modigliani's consumption functions; Baumol's and Tobin's money demand functions; Tobin's "widow's cruse" money multiplier; Tobin's q and investment demand; E Cary Brown, the full employment surplus, and built-in stabilizers.”
“We must protest and warn of all sorts of trends from outside to strike at the cruse of pure oil, to alter the spirit and the essence of the ultra-Orthodox public," exhorted the haredi newspaper Yated Neeman.”
The Huffington Post: Menachem Rosensaft: Ultra-Orthodox Judaism Need Not Be Obscurantist
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cruse’.
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Phonestheme: CR- (or KR-)
Grateful credit to pterodactyl and http://reocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9783/phond1.html.
crook, crack, crane, cremains, cranberries, crimp, crow, crunch, crash, creak, croak, cronk and 94 more...
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Containers
Stuff that holds other stuff.
cardboard box, jar, filing cabinet, safe deposit box, cupboard, wardrobe, jewel case, briefcase, locker, canopic jar, chest of drawers, paper sack and 208 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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Bottle Collection
I have a sizable collection of fiddle- and banjo-shaped bottles. Some quite old, others not so old.
ampule, ampulla, amula, baby’s bottle, Balthazar, beer bottle, betty, biberon, bidon, bijugue, bombard, borachte and 95 more...
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Libatious Words
worth pouring over
foison, fondant, fondue, font, found, funnel, fusile, libation, fuse, fusion, affusion, circumfuse and 85 more...
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Diet
scamp, plucky, countenance, toddle, wither, jade, bobbish, obtuse, fatuity, puisne, insipid, palpable and 66 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear I never heard this word before in my life. See its usage in a specific phrase on widow's cruse. Mar 6, 2008