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Caut vs Crut - What's the difference?

caut | crut |

As verbs the difference between caut and crut

is that caut is (obsolete|done by a panther) emit a call in the manner of a panther while crut is or crut can be .

caut

English

Verb

  • (obsolete, done by a panther) Emit a call in the manner of a panther.
  • * 1688 , Randle Holme, The Academy of Armory, or A Storehouse of Armory and Blazon , volume 2, page 134, column 2
    • A Panther Cauteth, which word is taken from the sound of his voice.
  • (obsolete) (in figurative extension)
  • * 1722 May 2nd, Ebenezer Elliston, “The La?t Speech and Dying Words of Ebenezer Elli?ton” in Mi?cellanies (ed. Jonathan Swift, pub. 1751, volume nine, fifth edition), pages 19–20
    • If I have done Service to Men in what I have ?aid, I ?hall hope I have done Service to God; and that will be better than a ?illy Speech made for me, full of whining and cauting, which I utterly de?pi?e, and have never been u?ed to; yet ?uch a one I expect to have my Ears tormented with, as I am pa??ing along the Streets[.]

    References

    * “ †caut, v.'']” listed in the '' [2nd ed., 1989 ----

    crut

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mining) A cross-measure tunnel or drift.
    • See also
    * dook * steeps

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) .

    Noun

  • The rough, shaggy part of oak bark.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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