different between cruet vs crut

English

Alternative forms

• crewet

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cruet (plural cruets)

1. 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.

2. (Britain) A stand for these containers.
3. A small vessel used to hold wine or water for the Eucharist.

Translations

Further reading

• cruet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Anagrams

• Crute, Curet, curet, cuter, eruct, recut, truce

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

crut (plural cruts)

1. (mining) A cross-measure tunnel or drift.

See also

• dook
• steeps

Etymology 2

Compare French croûte (“crust”).

Noun

crut

1. The rough, shaggy part of oak bark.

Etymology 3

Noun

crut (plural cruts)

1. (Britain, dialect) A dwarf.

Anagrams

• Curt, curt

French

Pronunciation

Verb

crut

1. third-person singular past historic of croire

Anagrams

• truc, turc, Turc