[crevet
App. an error for cruset, crucible.
| 1658 Phillips, Crevet, or Cruset, from the French word Creux, hollow, a Goldsmiths melting pot. [So all edd. to 1706.] 1721 Bailey, Crevet, Cruset, a Melting Pot used by Goldsmiths. 1823 Crabb Technol. Dict., Crevet, a melting pot used by goldsmiths. [Hence in Worcester and some later Dicts.] 1881 Raymond Mining Gloss., Crevet, a crucible.] |