cruse
/kɹuːs/
cruse noun: a small jar used to hold liquid, such as oil or water.
Noun
cruse (plural cruses)
- A small jar used to hold liquid, such as oil or water.
- With a thought I tooke for Maudline
& a cruse of cockle pottage.
with a thing thus tall, skie blesse you all:
I befell into this dotage.c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665) - He had dipped ungenerously into a generous mother’s purse; basely and recklessly spilt her little cruse.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 21, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...
- With a thought I tooke for Maudline
- An oil lamp; a crusy.
Proper noun capitalized: Cruse
Cruse
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Clay County, Illinois, United States.
cruse meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada
cruse in Tamil
- மண்குவளை
cruse in Malayalam
- small jar
- മൊന്ത monta
cruse in Kannada
- ಮಣ್ಣಿನ ಮಡಿಕೆ
Forms of cruse
| plural | cruses |
|---|---|
| alternative form | cruise |
| alternative form (rare) | cruze |
Origin of cruse
From Middle English crouse, from Old English crūse (“jar, cruse”), from Proto-West Germanic *krūsā, from Proto-Germanic *krūsǭ, *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.
Words formed from cruse
Words that rhyme with cruse
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- deduce
- sluice
- unloose
- educe
- effuse
- introduce
- mousse
- produce
- recluse
- reproduce
- Rus
- seduce
- spruce
- excuse
- moose
- traduce
- transduce
- vamoose
- Zeus
- abduce
- abstruse
- adduce
- diffuse
- disuse
- doos
- douce
- overproduce
- papoose
- reuse
- truce
- unsluice
- Al-Andalus
- ashy-headed goose
- boose
- burnoose
- caduce
- ceruse
- charlotte russe
- Emden goose
- fog juice
- hoose
- ill-use
- incuse
- luce
- misuse
- noose
- obstruse
- overuse
Questions about cruse
- What does cruse mean?
- Cruse means a small jar used to hold liquid, such as oil or water.
- What is cruse in Tamil?
- Cruse in Tamil is மண்குவளை. See Cruse meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is cruse?
- Cruse can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce cruse?
- Cruse is pronounced /kɹuːs/.
- What is the plural of cruse?
- The plural of cruse is cruses.
Words near cruse in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: cruse (page history and authors); Cruse (page history and authors); cruse (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cruse (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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