cruck
/krʌk
/noun British
Either of a pair of curved timbers extending from ground level to the transverse beam or ridge of a roof and forming a structure frame in a medieval timber-framed house: [as modifier]: a cruck barn...
- Its roof is supported by eleven pairs of raised base crucks.
- It would have been much larger than a Medieval peasant's cruck house.
- The route skirts the Folk Museum for a free peek at the ye-olde shops, the heather thatch and the splendid cruck style manor house that was reassembled here.
Origin
Late 16th century: variant of crook.
Rhymes
- normality
- normalizable
- normalization
- normalize
- normalizer
- normally
- normally aspirated
- normalness
- normal school
- normal science
- normal state
- Norman
- Norman Conquest
- Normande
- Normandy
- Normandy butter
- Normandy vellum
- Norman French
- Norman, Greg
- Normanise
- Normanish
- Normanist
- Normanization
- Normanize
- Normanizer