crut

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See also: crût and CRUT

English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun[edit]

crut (plural cruts)

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

Verb[edit]

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

  1. (mining) To work as a crutter.
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Etymology 2[edit]

Compare French croûte (crust).

Noun[edit]

crut

  1. The rough, shaggy part of oak bark.

Etymology 3[edit]

Noun[edit]

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

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French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (file)

Verb[edit]

crut

  1. third-person singular past historic of croire

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