cruisie

English

Alternative forms

• crusie, crusy

Etymology

Apparently an alteration of French creuset.

Noun

cruisie (plural cruisies)

1. (chiefly Scotland, now historical) An oil-burning lamp.
   • 1824, Walter Scott, Redgauntlet:

     Besides the articles of plate which I have already noticed, the old man now lighted and placed on the table a silver lamp, or cruisie, as the Scottish term it […] .

   • 1991, Lawrence Norfolk, Lemprière's Dictionary, Grove Press, published 1999, page 277:

     The cruisie lamps gave a dim, yellowish light but he could make out a prominent, slightly hooked nose and large dark eyes set into an oval face.

Related terms

• cruset