Crossword clues for cruet
cruet
- Salad-oil bottle
- Holder for wine or vinegar
- Wine or vinegar bottle
- Where oil or vinegar may be found
- Where oil and vinegar are found
- Vinegar dispenser
- Vinaigrette holder
- Vial for oil
- Truce (anag)
- Table vessel
- Table bottle
- Salad oil server
- Salad oil pourer
- Salad oil container
- Salad dressing vessel
- Salad dressing dispenser
- Salad dressing bottle
- Salad bar container
- Olive oil container
- Oil-bearing vessel
- Oil or vinegar container
- Oil and vinegar holder
- Holder for your ranch
- Good Seasons freebie offering
- Freebie with dressing mix, perhaps
- Fancy condiment container
- Dressing vessel
- Dressing server
- Dressing bottle
- Dining-room bottle
- Container for condiments
- Bottle for oil
- Dressing place
- Salad oil holder
- Oil holder
- Vinegar holder
- Item next to a salad bowl
- Dressing holder
- Oil vessel
- Italian vessel?
- Bottle that holds wine or oil or vinegar for the table
- Caster
- Vinegar bottle
- Condiment bottle
- Vinegar vial
- Table accessory
- Vinegar vessel
- Ampulla's cousin
- Glass bottle next to a salad bowl
- Condiment holder
- Bottle for oil or vinegar
- Condiment container
- Dinner-table vessel
- Vinegar container
- Set of containers for salt, pepper, oil, vinegar etc
- Small bottle
- Oil container
- Vessel for oil
- Container for oil or vinegar
- Salad-oil holder
- Salad dressing holder
- Dressing container
- Dressing dispenser
- Container for salad oil
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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.(Eccl.) A vessel used to hold wine, oil, or water for the service of the altar.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"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
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
n. bottle that holds wine or oil or vinegar for the table [syn: crewet]
Wikipedia
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.