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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cruet
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At other windows she could see tables with folded paper napkins and nickel plated cruets.
▪ Bowls of fruit, flowers, even the cruet would have to be paid for.
▪ He stayed rigidly still in the high-backed wooden chair and stared at the upset cruet.
▪ Make a clam shell cruet Emulsion in your chosen colour 1 Apply a layer of undercoat or primer and leave to dry.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cruet

Cruet \Cru"et\ (kr[udd]"[e^]t), n. [Anglo-French cruet, a dim. from OF. crue, cruie; of German or Celtic origin, and akin to E. crock an earthen vessel.]

  1. A bottle or vessel; esp., a vial or small glass bottle for holding vinegar, oil, pepper, or the like, for the table; a caster.
    --Swift.

  2. (Eccl.) A vessel used to hold wine, oil, or water for the service of the altar.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cruet

"small glass bottle for vinegar, oil, etc.," c.1300, Anglo-French diminutive of Old French crue "an earthen pot," from Frankish *kruka or some other Germanic source (compare Old High German kruog); related to crock.

Wiktionary
cruet

n. 1 A small bottle or container used to hold a condiment, such as salt, pepper, oil, or vinegar, for use at a dining table. 2 (context British English) A stand for these containers.

WordNet
cruet

n. bottle that holds wine or oil or vinegar for the table [syn: crewet]

Wikipedia
Cruet

A cruet , also called a caster, is a small flat-bottomed vessel with a narrow neck. Cruets often have an integral lip or spout, and may also have a handle. Unlike a small carafe, a cruet has a stopper or lid. Cruets are normally made from glass, ceramic, or stainless steel.

Usage examples of "cruet".

Nor, when Jamyl gave him the cruet, could he coax any kind of mental confirmation as their hands brushed.

With ponderous care, de Nore let Gorony pour wine from the cruet into his great, jewelled chalice, then blessed the water and added but a few drops.

Gorony was clumsy, and the wine cruet slipped from his shaking fingers and shattered on the marble floor before he or anyone else could prevent it.

As soon as we were alone I fell on the cruet, and, after a nerve-racking fumble, unearthed the syringe.

You may think, as judges say when they mean you ought to think, that it was an extremely rum thing for him to leave the syringe in the cruet after the job was done.

The dining-room had green wall-paper with yellow roses, bare floor and, for splendour, an enormous black walnut buffet adorned with silver cruet stands and fruit-and-nut bowls of imitation cut-glass--thriftily empty save at Sunday noon.

When she opened the dining-room door Peggy Mather was bending over the table moving a cruet to a new position.

She would have a son and he would grow up a Jarnisson, cruet and greedy and heartless, Mack thought.

I asked for a little vinegar for my beans, and a small cruet was brought to me.

Probably the latter, propped up against the cruet while he ate his solitary dinner.

The broken silver lighter, the saucerless cup, the cruet stand minus the vinegar.

The nutcracker shaped like an alligator, a lone mother-of pearl cuff link, a tortoiseshell comb with missing teeth, a broken silver lighter, a cruet stand minus the vinegar.

The nutcracker shaped like an alligator, a lone mother-of pearl cuff link, the broken lighter, the cruet stand minus the vinegar.

Denis finally found legitimate cause to be in the sacristy alone, washing cruets and sorting linens after a weekday Mass.

On the table, with extra ciboria containing bread to be consecrated during the Mass, were the cruets of wine and water that would be used.