one of a pair of curved wooden timbers supporting the end of the roof in certain types of building
Word origin
C19: variant of crook (n)
cruck in American English
(krʌk)
noun
(in old English building)
one of a pair of naturally curved timbers forming one of several rigid arched frames supporting the roof of a cottage or farm building
Word origin
[1885–90; var. of crook1]This word is first recorded in the period 1885–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: foregut, reactor, sensitization, twofer, zoom
Examples of 'cruck' in a sentence
cruck
It is vast: 168ft long, with an impressive soaring timber cruck roof.