cruse

1. 1.

   small jar; holds liquid (oil or water)

   Broaderjar

Other forms of cruse

plural

cruses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cruse

What does cruse mean?

cruse means "small jar; holds liquid (oil or water)".

How many syllables are in cruse?

cruse has 1 syllable: cruse. In IPA it is /ˈkɹuz/.

Is cruse a common word?

cruse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.