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crut

crut noun: a cross-measure tunnel or drift.

Noun (1)

crut (plural cruts)

  1. A cross-measure tunnel or drift.

Verb

crut (third-person singular simple present cruts, present participle crutting, simple past and past participle crutted)

  1. To work as a crutter.

Noun (2)

crut

  1. (archaic) The rough, shaggy part of oak bark

Noun (3)

crut (plural cruts)

  1. (UK, dialectal) A dwarf.

Noun (4) capitalized: CRUT

CRUT (plural CRUTs)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of charitable remainder unitrust.

Forms of crut

Noun
pluralcruts
pluralCRUTs
Verb
third-person singular presentcruts
present participlecrutting
past participlecrutted
pastcrutted

Origin of crut

Compare French croûte (“crust”).

Questions about crut

What does crut mean?
Crut means a cross-measure tunnel or drift.
What part of speech is crut?
Crut can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of crut?
The plural of crut is cruts.

Words near crut in the dictionary

  1. crustquake
  2. crustquakes
  3. crusts
  4. crusty
  5. crusy
  6. crut
  7. crutch
  8. crutch cross
  9. crutch crosses
  10. crutch word
  11. crutch words

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crut (page history and authors); CRUT (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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