crut

See also: crût and CRUT

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

crut (plural cruts)

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

Verb

crut (third-person singular simple present cruts, present participle crutting, simple past and past participle crutted)

1. (mining) To work as a crutter.

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. (UK, dialect) A dwarf.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “crut”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Curt, curt

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

crut

1. third-person singular past historic of croire

Anagrams

• truc, turc, Turc