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Definition of Crucks
1. cruck [n] - See also: cruck
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crucks
Literary usage of Crucks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Borderland Studies: Miscellaneous Addresses and Essays Pertaining to by George Milbry Gould (1908)
"Photograph of a demolished house with the old crucks built about with new walls.
The closeness of the timbers is thus a criterion of early date. ..."
2. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1899)
"... known as ' gavels,' ' forks,' or ' crucks,' uniting them at the apexes by a
ridge-tree, and covering the whole with any suitable material. ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The pairs of trees were known as forks or crucks. Vitruvius (ii. i) suggests a
similar kind of building in ancient times, except that the interlaced twigs ..."
4. The English Church from Its Foundation to the Norman Conquest (597-1066) by William Hunt (1907)
"... in the booth-shaped sSh^cd houses built on " crucks" or forks, by uniting two
pairs of trees or timbers, bent each to each, by a ridge beam. ..."
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