Definitions for cruet

cruet cru·et

Spelling: [kroo-it]
IPA: /ˈkru ɪt/

Cruet is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 65 anagrams from letters in cruet (certu).

Definitions for cruet

noun

  1. a glass bottle, especially one for holding vinegar, oil, etc., for the table.

Origin of cruet

1250-1300; Middle English Anglo-French, equivalent to Old French cru(i)e pitcher (Frankish *krūka; compare Old English crūce pot) + -et -et

Examples for cruet

But I speak of the cruet sauces, where the quintessence of the sapid is condensed in a phial.

His eyes fell upon the cruet which contained the consecrated oil.

Without answering, she took the cruet from the sideboard and set it on the table.

Crevet, krev′et, n. a variant of cruet, a goldsmith's melting-pot.

It all ended in his dropping a little oil from a cruet on a large pond at Clapham.

Hang the pepper-box to his nose, nurse, then he will be a cruet.

Note the one candle on the altar, the bishops chair, the piscina with its cruet, and the triptych.

The servants placed before her a cruet of vinegar, and she put into it one of the pearls which were appended to her ears.

A small quantity may be kept in a cruet; retaining the leaves at the bottom.

They'd mix about as well as a cruet of vinegar and a313 pail of lard.

Word Value for cruet
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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