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Definition of Cruds
1. crud [v] - See also: crud
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cruds
Literary usage of Cruds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. London labour and the London poor: Cyclopædia of the Condition and Earnings by Henry Mayhew (1861)
"t ed «11 her " cruds " near Drury-lane theatre, «doften received in a few hours
... There is a slight and occasional loss bv the "cruds" being kept until ..."
2. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop (1892)
"The cruds and cream hoose " was formerly an institution in Newcastle. " Off the
ghost flew wiv a terrible scream : They ran into a hoose where they sell ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1840)
"... do or do not decompose water, when dissolved in it, had afforded no certain
results, since none of the methods employed yielded an experimentum cruds. ..."
4. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by George Lyman Kittredge (1892)
"18 ' Ye '11 mak for us a supper, A supper o cruds and green whey, And likewise
a bed o green rashes, For Lizzy and I to ly. ..."
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