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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A dwarf.
  2. n. The rough shaggy part of oak-bark.
  3. n. An ancient Irish musical instrument. See crowd.

Wiktionary

  1. n. mining A cross-measure tunnel or drift.
  2. n. The rough, shaggy part of oak bark.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The rough, shaggy part of oak bark.

Etymologies

  1. Compare French croûte ("crust"). (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “When thickened poour into previously baked pie shell, sprinked 1 teasp. flour on crut before adding in the butterscotch mixture.”

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  • “A force de reflechir il crut simplifier les choses en soumettant la nature entiere a un seul agent, a un esprit, a una ame universelle, qui mettait cette nature et ses parties en mouvement.”

    The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

  • “Les magistrats, surtout ceux D'Amsterdam, seroient bien fachs que l'on crut qu'ils font le Commerce, Its veulent meme cacher que leurs Ancetres aient ete commercans.”

    John Adams diary 34, 5 -- 26 October 1782

  • “Cela auroit ete d'autant plus aise a etablir que les Regences, seroient fort fachees qu'on crut que c'est le Commerce qui les conduit, ou, si Yon veut qui les engage a telle ou telle demarche.”

    John Adams diary 34, 5 -- 26 October 1782

  • “And then, on a lousy show like this, co-ordinating two chicken-crut guerilla bands to help you blow a bridge under impossible conditions, to abort a counteroffensive that will probably already be started, you run into a girl like this Maria.”

    For Whom The Bell Tolls

  • “Robert Jordan was thinking, if I did not have to work with this woman and her drunken man and her chicken-crut outfit, I would slap her so hard across the face that —.”

    For Whom The Bell Tolls

  • “I do not believe in ogres, soothsayers, fortune tellers, or chicken-crut gypsy witchcraft.”

    For Whom The Bell Tolls

  • “Robert Jordan was thinking, if I did not have to work with this woman and her drunken man and her chicken-crut outfit, I would slap her so hard across the face that --.”

    For Whom The Bell Tolls

  • “Le P. Lallemant, à la prière de ses amis, crut pouvoir sans conséquence intercéder pour elle.”

    The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2)

  • “-- Gaillard remarks on this event, "Chacun crut sur cette mort ce qu'il voulut.”

    The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1

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