cruse

plural cruses · alternative cruise · alternative rare cruze

1. archaicgovernmentA small jar used to hold liquid, such as oil or water.

   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 1849–1850, →OCLC

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   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. uncommonAn oil lamp; a crusy.

1. A surname.
2. An unincorporated community in Clay County, Illinois, United States.