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scruze, v. Now dial.|skruːz|
Also 7–8 scruse, (7 screwze).
[? Suggested by screw and squeeze vbs.]
trans. To squeeze.
1590Spenser F.Q. ii. xi. 46 Having scruzd out of his carrion corse The lothfull life. Ibid. ii. xii. 56 Whose sappy liquor, that with fulnesse sweld, Into her cup she scruzd with daintie breach Of her fine fingers. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. vii. (1623) 530 Those huge sums, which he had scruzed out of Stephen. 1624Bp. Hall True Peace-Maker Wks. (1625) 542 The oppressing Gentleman, that..scruzes his Tenants to death. 1664Court & Kitchin Eliz. Cromwell 114 Scruze into it the juice of two or three lemons. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing 186 The whole Stick of Letters..are screwzed together. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), To Scruse, to crowd, to press or thrust hard. |