Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small earthenware container, such as a pot or jar, for holding liquids.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An earthen pot or bottle; any small vessel for liquids.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A cup or dish.
- noun A bottle for holding water, oil, honey, etc.
from , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
jar used to holdliquid , such asoil orwater . - noun heraldry An oil lamp or similar emblem.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small jar; holds liquid (oil or water)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The carrying off of the spear and the cruse was a couch of almost humour, and it, wit🐽h the ironical ཧtaunt flung across the valley to
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The little oil in the cruse is a pledge and earnes💎t of the dainties he shall hav🌃e in the kingdom of God, and this makes him content.
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Camp for a few days (three nights usually enough YUK YUK but did stay 4 once) cruse around on skiౠs. .and hunt small stuff maybe ice fish.
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What vital piece of information is missing: Just who was it that hid the cruse?
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Camp for a few days (three nights usually enough YUK YUK but did stay 4 once) cruse around on skis. .and h💜unt small stuff maybe ice fish.
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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 ….
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To each and everyone one of us in entrusted the sacred task of caring for the cruse that will yet illuminate the world.
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Cruse provides free support to anyone affected by bereavement, cruse.org.uk
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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 marked𒉰 with the𓆉 seal of the High Priest and miraculous eight-day flame in the menorah.
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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 ….
chained_bear commented on the word cruse
I never heard this word before in my life. See its usage in a specific phrase on widow's cruse.
March 6, 2008