different between cruet vs cruset

English

Middle English, from Anglo-Norman cruet, diminutive of Old French crue (“an earthen pot”), from Old Saxon kr?ka.

IPA^(key): /?k?u.?t/

cruet (plural cruets)

A small bottle or container used to hold a condiment, such as salt, pepper, oil, or vinegar, for use at a dining table.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 17
  Mrs. Hussey soon appeared, with a mustard-pot in one hand and a vinegar-cruet in the other, having just broken away from the occupation of attending to the castors, and scolding her little black boy meantime.
(Britain) A stand for these containers.
A small vessel used to hold wine or water for the Eucharist.

Compare French creuset. See cruse, crucible.

cruset (plural crusets)

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