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† crucet-hus Obs.
[OE.; crucet is app. an adaptation of L. cruciātus or its OF. form cruciet.]
House of torment; see quot.
1137O.E. Chron. Sume hi diden in crucethus ðis in an cæste þat was scort & nareu & un dep & dide scærpe stanes þer inne. [1839Keightley Hist. Eng. I. 122 Some, they put in the crucet-house, that is in a chest that was short, narrow, and not deep, and put sharp stones in it and forced the man in, and so broke all his limbs.] |