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A creel or osier basket.

into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people. Their storehouses crammed with grain. Shak. He will cram his brass down our throats. Swift.

n arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace, for supporting kettles, etc., over a fire.

A large basket or hamper of wickerwork, used for the transportation of china, crockery, and similar wares.

To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan. He soon afterwards composed that discourse, conformably to the plan which he had crayoned out. Malone.

place where butter and cheese are made, or where milk and cream are put up in cans for market.

the lines serving to define the limits of the bowler and the striker. Bowling crease (Cricket), a line extending three feet four inches on each side of the central strings at right angles to the line between the wickets. -- Return crease (Cricket), a short line at each end of the bowling crease and at right angles to…

An osier basket, such as anglers use. Sir W. Scott.

Crockets. See Crocket.

An open frame or basket of iron, filled with combustible material, to be burned as a beacon; an open lamp or firrepan carried on a pole in nocturnal processions. Starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus. Milton. As a cresset true that darts its length Of beamy luster from a tower of strength. W…

The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring matter which rubs off from cloth.

ark system, restraint intermediate between imprisonment and freedom, and liberation on ticket of leave.

re than such unlawfull games. Ascham. What soever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends. Bacon.

ment in the form of a cross, or surmounted bu a cross, set up in a public place; as, a market cross; a boundary cross; Charing Cross in London. Dun-Edin's Cross, a pillared stone, Rose on a turret octagon. Sir W. Scott.

A bracket. See Bracket.

To cry like a crane. [Obs.] "The crane crunketh." Withals (1608).

One who piks or chooses; esp., an inspector who select wares suitable for market.

e purses fastened by a string to their girdles); one who steals from the person; a pickpocket To have an open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is necessary for a cutpurse. Shak.

A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table.

usical instrument used by the ancients. It is supposed to have been similar to the modern kettle drum, though perhaps smaller.