Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete or dialectal form of
curdle . - To crowd; huddle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To curdle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
curdle .
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Examples
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“It will not suffer milk to cruddle in the stomach, and therefore it is put in milk that is drunke… Spearmint” Gaius Plinius Secundus - Naturalis Historia 77CE
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“It will not suffer milk to cruddle in the stomach, and therefore it is put in milk that is drunke… Spearmint” Gaius Plinius Secundus - Naturalis Historia 77CE
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The matter thrown out was a stream of metal and minerals, rendered liquid by the fierceness of the fire, which boiled up at the mouth like water at the head of a great river; and having run a little way, the extremity thereof began to crust and cruddle, turning into large porous stones, resembling cakes of burning sea-coal.
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