Meaning of cruse | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A small jar used to hold liquid, such as oil or water.
   archaic
2. A surname.
3. An oil lamp; a crusy.
   uncommon
4. An unincorporated community in Clay County, Illinois, United States.

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Examples

“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.”

“He had dipped ungenerously into a generous mother’s purse; basely and recklessly spilt her little cruse.”

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