(n.) A bottle or vessel; esp., a vial or small glass bottle for holding vinegar, oil, pepper, or the like, for the table; a caster.
(n.) A vessel used to hold wine, oil, or water for the service of the altar.
Example Sentences:
(1) Today he has brought his own dictaphone, and places it side by side with mine on the restaurant table, where they sit like an uneasy cruet set.
Cruft
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) I don't understand why parties don't do that – they could turn it into a "meet the team" exercise, or make it more like Crufts.
(2) Rupert looked well bred but wounded, like something coming last at Crufts.
(3) Stubbs had even less to go on for the dingo, which is no doubt why Portrait of a Large Dog looks more like something you might enter for Crufts than a feral beast from the outback.
(4) First, though, is the inevitable "career highlights" montage: Mark riverdancing in socks at the Super Bowl; Mark motioning frantically to his genitals at Crufts; Mark clopping jubilantly across the churned sod of Ascot, clackers swinging like pork hammocks in a gale.
(5) Birtwhistle, a former dog trainer who competed at Crufts, is the second outsider to win the show after Frances Quinn’s victory last year .
(6) Elsewhere, dog show climax Crufts: Best in Show, had 1.4 million viewers, a 5.5% share, between 7pm and 9pm on Channel 4 .
(7) "Google Play isn't a vetted app store - it tends to have a lot of cruft," said Morgan.
(8) TGBBO stuffed the gaps with some biographical “sugar work”, mini-profiles of the finalists, in which the wives of both men cried, and Nancy’s husband said that she was the sort who could turn her hand to anything; when she trained a dog, it ended up at Crufts.