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scruze
scruze, v. Now dial. (skruːz) Also 7–8 scruse, (7 screwze). [? Suggested by screw and squeeze vbs.] trans. To squeeze.1590 Spenser F.Q. ii. xi. 46 Having scruzd out of his carrion corse The lothfull life. Ibid. ii. xii. 56 Whose sappy liquor, that with fulnesse sweld, Into her cup she scruzd with da...
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out-scruze
† out-ˈscruze, -scruse, v. Obs. rare. [out- 15.] trans. To press or squeeze out.1621 G. Sandys Ovid's Met. vii. (1626) 134 She cuts the old mans throte; out-scrus'd His scarce warme blood.
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scrouge
▪ I. scrouge, n. colloq. or vulgar. (skruːdʒ, skraʊdʒ) Also scrowge. [f. scrouge v.] 1. A crush, squeeze, or crowd.1839 C. Clark J. Noakes cxxiii, Agin these shows, oh, what a scrowge! 1887 C. Keene Let. in Life xii. (1892) 383, I went to the Academy ‘Swarry’ last night—the usual scrouge. 2. U.S. (S...
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supple
▪ I. supple, n. Sc. and north. dial. (ˈsup(ə)l) Also souple, suple, soople. [app. var. of swupple, swouple, swipple, assimilated to supple.] 1. The part of a flail that strikes the grain in thrashing.1634 (8 Dec.) Rec. Baron Crt. Colstoun (MS.), Unlawes Pak. Nycolsone in eastmanis in 40s. for cuttin...
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