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单词 cruck
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cruck

[ kruhk ]
/ krʌk /

noun

(in old English building) one of a pair of naturally curved timbers forming one of several rigid arched frames supporting the roof of a cottage or farm building.

Origin of cruck

First recorded in 1885–90; variant of crook1

Words nearby cruck

crucifixion thorn, cruciform, crucify, Crucis, cruciverbalist, cruck, crud, cruddy, crude, Cruden, crude oil
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Example sentences from the Web for cruck

  • Like the palisade and puncheon methods, the cruck was medieval down to its very core.

    Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century|Henry Chandlee Forman

British Dictionary definitions for cruck

cruck
/ (krʌk) /

noun

one of a pair of curved wooden timbers supporting the end of the roof in certain types of building

Word Origin for cruck

C19: variant of crook (n)
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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