crug

English

Etymology

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Noun

crug (uncountable)

1. (slang, obsolete) bread
   • Charles Lamb, The Essays of Elia

     He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.