Definition of Croze

1. n. A cooper's tool for making the grooves for the heads of casks, etc.; also, the groove itself.

Definition of Croze

1. Noun. A groove at the ends of the staves of a barrel into which the edge of the head is fitted ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Croze

1. a tool used in barrel-making [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Croze

crownworks
crows
crowsfeet
crowsfoot
crowstep
crowstepped
crowsteps
crowstone
crowstones
crowth
crowths
croyn
croyned
croyning
croyns
croze (current term)
croze iron
crozer
crozers
crozes
crozier
croziered
croziers
crp
cru
crubeen
crubeens
cruces
cruces gammatae
cruces pilorum

Literary usage of Croze

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"I. channel (contextual); spec, furrow, gouge, chose, croze, rebate, throat, quirk, rifle, dado, ditch (rare), excavate, mill, score. grooved, a. channeled ..."

2. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1907)
"LW croze and Tarsney & Fitzpatrick, for the appellee. 515 CARPENTER, CJ Plaintiff, as the assignee of a cause of action originally belonging to one "Will C. ..."

3. A Typographical Gazetteer by Henry Cotton (1831)
"La croze, in his Histoire du Christianisme des Indes, relates, that in the year 1706 the Danish missionaries instructed the natives at Tranquebar out of a ..."

4. The Theological Review: A Quarterly Journal of Religious Thought and Life by Charles Beard (1870)
"Asseman, writing after La croze, sets it down as about AD 800. ... 27 La croze blames Gouvea for leaving it in doubt whether the two wives were ..."

5. L.R.A. as Authorities: Including the Citations of Each Case as Precedent, (1 by Lawyers' reports annotated, United States Supreme Court (1913)
"croze, 165 Mich. 125, 130 NW 355, holding that self- serving declaration to third person, in absence of party to suit are inadmissible when they relate past ..."

6. Technological Dictionary: English-Spanish and Spanish-English of Words and by Néstor Ponce de León (1920)
"to groove the staves, to notch, to cross, to croze, to make the croie, ruptura, fracture, rupture, parting, breaking. rural, ..."

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