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Crone vs Croze - What's the difference?

crone | croze |

As nouns the difference between crone and croze

is that crone is (wicca) one of the triune goddesses of the lady in wicca alongside the mother and maiden and representing an old woman while croze is a groove at the ends of the staves of a barrel into which the edge of the head is fitted.

crone

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) An old woman.
  • * Dryden
    • But still the crone was constant to her note.
  • An archetypal figure, a Wise Woman.
  • An ugly, evil-looking, or frightening old woman; a hag.
  • (obsolete) An old ewe.
    • (Tusser)
  • (obsolete) An old man, especially one who talks and acts like an old woman.
  • * Beaconsfield
    • A few old battered crones of office.
  • * Washington Irving
    • The old crone [a negro man] lived in a hovel which his master had given him.

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    croze

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A groove at the ends of the staves of a barrel into which the edge of the head is fitted
  • A cooper's tool for making these grooves.