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单词 crusie
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crusien.

Brit. /ˈkruːzi/, U.S. /ˈkruzi/, Scottish English /ˈkruzɪ/
Forms: Also cruisie, cruizie, cruizy, cruizey, cruzie, croosie, crusy.
Etymology: apparently a phonetic representation of French creuset, cruset n., or perhaps of earlier origin from Old French croiseul , creuseul (plural -eus ), or croisel , cruseau , with which it agrees in its two senses, while French creuset and English cruset n. have only that of ‘crucible’.
Scottish.
1. A small iron lamp with a handle, burning oil or tallow; also, a sort of triangular iron candlestick with one or more sockets for candles, having the edges turned up on the three sides. (Jamieson.)
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a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 165 The cruizy too can only blink and bleer.
1776 C. Keith Farmer's Ha' ix. (Jam.) Meg lights the crusy wi' a match.
1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. iv. 70 A silver lamp, or cruisie, as the Scotch term it.
1892 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 487 The croosie, a triangular metal saucer with an upright hook at the base to be hung by.
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2. A crucible, or hollow piece of iron with a long handle, used for melting metals. (Jamieson.)The common sense in South of Scotland; crusies were commonly used by stocking-weavers in middle of the 19th cent. to melt lead or pewter for setting the needles in their frames.
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