Cruse (Hastings' Dictionary)

See Food. The English word, now archaic though not quite obsolete, is npimrcntly of Scandinavian origin, and means an eartnenware jar for holding liquids ; less freq. for drinking from, as Skelton (1526), 'Then he may drink out of a stone cruyse.' In AV it holds water (1 S 26"- "■ ". 1 K 19"), oU (1 K 17'^ '*•'«), honey (1 K 14-'), and salt (2 K 2»). J. Hastings.