Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A groove inside the end of a barrel or cask into which the head is set.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The cross-groove in the staves of a cask or barrel in which the edge of the head is inserted.
- noun A coopers' tool for cutting a cross-groove in staves for the head of a cask. It resembles a circular plane.
- To make a croze or groove in, as a barrel.
- In hat-making, to refold (a hat-body) so that different surfaces may in turn be presented to the action of the felting-machine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A cooper's tool for making the grooves for the heads of casks, etc.; also, the groove itself.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
groove at the ends of thestaves of abarrel into which the edge of thehead is fitted - noun A
cooper 'stool for making these grooves.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French creux, from Old French crues, groove, from Vulgar Latin *crosus, perhaps of Celtic origin.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Compare cross and crosier.
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