cruisie

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Apparently an alteration of French creuset.

Noun

cruisie (plural cruisies)

  1. (chiefly Scotland, now historical) An oil-burning lamp.
    • 1824, Walter Scott, Redgauntlet:
      Besides the articles of plate which I have already noticed, the old man now lighted and placed on the table a silver lamp, or cruisie, as the Scottish term it […] .
    • 1991, Lawrence Norfolk, Lemprière's Dictionary, Grove Press, published 1999, page 277:
      The cruisie lamps gave a dim, yellowish light but he could make out a prominent, slightly hooked nose and large dark eyes set into an oval face.
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