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cruze

cruze is the alternative spelling of cruse.

Meaning of cruse

Noun

cruse (plural cruses)

  1. (archaic) 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)
  2. (uncommon) An oil lamp; a crusy.

See all 4 meanings of cruse

Proper noun capitalized: Cruze

Cruze (plural Cruzes)

  1. A surname.

Forms of cruze

Noun
pluralcruzes
Proper noun
pluralCruzes

Questions about cruze

What does cruze mean?
Cruze means a surname.
What is cruze the alternative spelling of?
Cruze is the alternative spelling of cruse.
What part of speech is cruze?
Cruze is a proper noun.

Words near cruze in the dictionary

  1. cruzados
  2. Cruzan
  3. Cruzans
  4. Cruzcruz
  5. Cruzcruzes
  6. cruze
  7. cruzeiro
  8. cruzeiros
  9. Cruzen
  10. Cruzens
  11. Cruzes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cruze (page history and authors); Cruze (page history and authors); cruse (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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