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▪ I. † cruck1 Obs.
[Cf. ON. krukka pot: see crock.]
A pail or can.
1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 181/2 For keeping of Swine..Crucks, or Cans, to carry their Meat and Draff in. Ibid. iii. 335/1 Of some Milk-Maids..I have heard..a Milk Pail called..a Cruck.
▪ II. cruck2|krʌk|
[Var. crock n.5, crook n. 5 c.]
One of a pair of curved timbers, forming with other pairs the framework of a house; = crock n.5 Freq. attrib.
1898S. O. Addy Evol. Eng. House ii. 17 A building erected in this way is now said to be ‘built on crucks’. 1934Archit. Rev. LXXV. 214/2 The foreign prototypes of the English ‘cruck’ house. 1948J. Walton in Antiquity XXII. 179 The development of the cruck framework. Ibid., The cruck buildings of Northern England. 1949K. S. Woods Rural Crafts iv. xi. 170 Two arched or slanting timbers, called crucks, or crutches,..form each of the gable-ends, and support the roof-tree. 1970H. Braun Parish Churches viii. 101 The great halls of the Anglo-Saxons were formed of lines of wide timber arches called ‘crucks’. |