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cruse
[ krooz, kroos ]
noun
- an earthen pot, bottle, etc., for liquids.
cruse
/ kruːz /
noun
- a small earthenware container used, esp formerly, for liquids
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Origin of cruse1
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Origin of cruse1
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Example Sentences
A little saint best fits a little shrine, A little prop best fits a little vine; As my small cruse best fits my little wine.
And he did stay, a good many months, and all the time of the famine there was meal in the barrel and oil in the cruse.
A cruse of water and a loaf of bread, with cruel mockery, were placed in the recess.
With two away at the same time, “the barrel of meal did not waste, nor the cruse of oil fail.”
Our eyes are heavy, and we do not see the water cruse, though it is at our side.
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