Synonyms for cruet
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kroo-it |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkru ɪt |
Top 10 synonyms for cruet Other synonyms for the word cruet
- alembic
- amphora
- ampulla
- bag
- beaker
- burette
- canteen
- caster
- chalice
- container
- crock
- cruet
- crystal
- dead soldier
- decanter
- demijohn
- ewer
- fiasco
- flacon
- flagon
- flasket
- goblet
- gourd
- growler
- hooker
- horn
- magnum
- noggin
- phial
- pitcher
- retort
- soldier
- tub
- tumbler
- tun
- urn
- vacuum bottle
- vase
- vat
- vessel
- vial
- wine bottle
Définition of cruet
Origin :- "small glass bottle for vinegar, oil, etc.," c.1300, Anglo-French diminutive of Old French crue "an earthen pot," from Frankish *kruka or some other Germanic source (cf. Old High German kruog); related to crock.
- As in jar : noun container
- As in jug : noun container for liquid
- As in pitcher : noun jug
- As in bottle : noun container, usually for liquids
- As in decanter : noun vessel
- As in flask : noun small container for liquid
- But I speak of the cruet sauces, where the quintessence of the sapid is condensed in a phial.
- Extract from : « Crotchet Castle » by Thomas Love Peacock
- They'd mix about as well as a cruet of vinegar and a313 pail of lard.
- Extract from : « Shorty McCabe on the Job » by Sewell Ford
- A small quantity may be kept in a cruet; retaining the leaves at the bottom.
- Extract from : « Miss Leslie's Lady's New Receipt-Book » by Eliza Leslie
- His eyes fell upon the cruet which contained the consecrated oil.
- Extract from : « Robert Annys: Poor Priest » by Annie Nathan Meyer
- Hang the pepper-box to his nose, nurse, then he will be a cruet.
- Extract from : « Funny Stories Told By The Soldiers » by Carleton B. Case
- Without answering, she took the cruet from the sideboard and set it on the table.
- Extract from : « The White Peacock » by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
- Note the one candle on the altar, the bishops chair, the piscina with its cruet, and the triptych.
- Extract from : « Parish Priests and Their People in the Middle Ages in England » by Edward L. Cutts
- It all ended in his dropping a little oil from a cruet on a large pond at Clapham.
- Extract from : « Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) » by Wiliam Cabell Bruce
- Crevet, krev′et, n. a variant of Cruet, a goldsmith's melting-pot.
- Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) » by Various
- The servants placed before her a cruet of vinegar, and she put into it one of the pearls which were appended to her ears.
- Extract from : « Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnus » by William MacGillivray
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