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When the sheep were safe and his day's labour was over, he read by the light of the fire and the "crusie" (oil-lamp) overhead, Witsius on the Covenants, or
Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878
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This is why Rush perfers to crusie for boys next door in the Dominican Republic.
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Look at today's news about the vomiting crusie ship up at the Cromarty Firth and ponder when was the last time the Govan yards built a cruise liner?
Loose lips sink ships Jeff 2009
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I walked down to the docking station where boats and crusie ships dock as this is a big tourist port city.
One Step Up (...and two steps back) Pauly V. 2007
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I walked down to the docking station where boats and crusie ships dock as this is a big tourist port city.
Archive 2007-05-01 Pauly V. 2007
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When piper played cheerly, and crusie burned bright,
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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Maybe the Dems can crusie the barrio on Election night and get some well deserved illegal votes.
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Creighton would crusie from there, using a 15-5 run to go ahead 70-50, which matched CU's largest lead of the game.
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Is the cruise Carnival Destiny a good crusie for teens?
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AB > I'll be edamacatin myself while you suckers have to crusie these here innernetz
chained_bear commented on the word crusie
OED:
"Also cruisie, -zie, -y, -ey, cruzie, croosie. app. a phonetic repr. of F. creuset, CRUSET, or perh. of earlier origin from OF. croiseul, creuseul (pl. -eus), or croisel, cruseau, with which it agrees in its two senses, while F. creuset and Eng. CRUSET have only that of ‘crucible’.
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.)
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 c. to melt lead or pewter for setting the needles in their frames."
September 10, 2008