cruse
Americannoun
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cruses
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of cruse
1225–75; Middle English crouse ( Old English crūse; cognate with German Krause pot with lid), conflated with croo ( Old English crōg, crōh; cognate with German Krug jug)
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After Bin Laden was accused of attacking U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in 1998, the Clinton administration fired cruse missiles at Afghanistan.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2021
I’ve got more, I’m sorry, I’ve gotta cruse through this.
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2020
They got the $500 yes, they got the trip reimbursed, yes, they got a second cruse paid for free.
From Time ● Feb. 19, 2013
He now keeps a Bible in his office bookcase and frequently alludes to little-known passages, including one from the Book of Kings about a widow who had a cruse of oil that never ran out.
From Time Magazine Archive
In art St Pol is most generally represented with a dragon, and sometimes with a bell, or a cruse of water and a loaf of bread, symbolical of his frugal habits.
From Legends & Romances of Brittany by Lewis Spence
If you have any green cruses, Mrs Hilliard, I’ll buy a dozen!”
From The Love Affairs of Pixie by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
The skins of these animals serve for an infinity of purposes, and even cruses are made of them for holding water or liquors.
From Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos. by George Vasey
Close to the scar left by the thunderbolt were fragments of food, cruses of liquor and broken drinking-vessels, with a bass-drum and a steamboat signal-bell, of which, with pain, I learned the use.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
And many other things there be, which they have taken upon them to observe, as the washing of cups and cruses, and of brazen vessels, and of tables.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
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