† cruskyncruiskenn.
Obsolete or Scottish dialect.
A small vessel for holding liquids; hence a liquid measure.
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1378 Inventory in Promptorium Parvulorum 106 Un cruskyn de terre garnis d'argent..Un pot d'argent blanc au guyse d'un cruskyn.
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 602/40 [Picarius, quidam ciphus, a curskyn].
1408 Will of Thomas de Molynton (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/2) f. 125v Vnum Cruskyn de argento & deauratum.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 106 Cruskyn' or cruske, coop of erþe, cartesia.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Cruisken of whisky, a certain measure of this liquor, Angus.
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