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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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crusie
,
cruisie
noun
an open, boat-shaped, oil lamp:
And then the evening came in, he’d light the cruisie.
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etymology:
Scots ‘possibly a phonetic representation of French creuset’; attested by
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and
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in
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