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Cruse N Earthenware Container Designed Holding Liquid Widow

Word cruse
Definition n. An earthenware container designed for holding liquid.
Sentence The widow whose cruse became inexaustible was old Marged Emmwnt.
Source The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, Jonathan Rose

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