Cruck vs Cluck - What's the difference?
cruck | cluck |
a sturdy timber with a curve or angle used for primary framing of a timber house, usually used in pairs.
*1952 : To construct such a house, it is necessary to select an oak with a branch growing out at an angle of about 45°; the upper part of the tree, above the fork, having been cut off, the trunk and branch are roughly squared and divided in half . If the two halves are then placed opposite one another, with the branch ends pegged together, they constitute what was usually known as a 'cruck' or, more correctly, 'a pair of crucks'. — L.F. Salzman, Building in England , p. 195. The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.
Any sound similar to this.
A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.
To make such a sound.
To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
* Shakespeare
to suffer withdrawal from heroin.
As nouns the difference between cruck and cluck
is that cruck is a sturdy timber with a curve or angle used for primary framing of a timber house, usually used in pairs while cluck is the sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.As a verb cluck is
to make such a sound.cruck
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(en noun)cluck
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* (l) (dialectal) * (l)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- She, poor hen, fond of no second brood, / Has clucked three to the wars.