cruize

plural cruizes

1. obsoleteObsolete form of cruise.

   [H]e flogged the whole starboard watch the last time that he was on a cruize, because the ship would only sail nine knots upon a bowline.

   1833, [Frederick Marryat], “I Am Made to Look Very Blue at the Blue Posts—Find Wild Spirits Around, and, Soon After, Hot Spirits within Me; […]”, in Peter Simple. […], volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], published 1834, →OCLC, pages 26–27

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   It would be the greatest pleasure to him to have her there to the last moment before he sailed, and perhaps find her there still when he came in, from his first cruize!

   1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VI, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 132

present singular third person cruizes · participle present cruizing · participle past cruized · past cruized

1. obsoleteObsolete form of cruise.

   I shall cruize a fortnight more, and then join the admiral at Jamaica.

   1833, [Frederick Marryat], “O’Brien’s Good Advice—Captain Kearney Again Deals in the Marvellous”, in Peter Simple. […], volume II, London: Saunders and Otley, […], published 1834, →OCLC, page 271

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   I should not wonder if you had your orders to-morrow; but you cannot sail with this wind, if you are to cruize to the westward; […]

   1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 150