cruize

English

Noun

cruize (plural cruizes)

Obsolete form of cruise.
- 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter VI, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 132:
  It would be the greatest pleasure to him to have her there to the last moment before he sailed, and perhaps find her there still when he came in, from his first cruize!

Verb

cruize (third-person singular simple present cruizes, present participle cruizing, simple past and past participle cruized)

Obsolete form of cruise.
- 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 150:
  I should not wonder if you had your orders to-morrow; but you cannot sail with this wind, if you are to cruize to the westward; […]

Derived terms

cruizer

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