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Croze

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Croze
    A cooper's tool for making the grooves for the heads of casks, etc.; also, the groove itself.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) croze
    The cross-groove in the staves of a cask or barrel in which the edge of the head is inserted.
  2. (n) croze
    A coopers' tool for cutting a cross-groove in staves for the head of a cask. It resembles a circular plane.
  3. croze
    To make a croze or groove in, as a barrel.
  4. croze
    In hat-making, to refold (a hat-body) so that different surfaces may in turn be presented to the action of the felting-machine.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Croze
    krōz the groove in the staves of a cask in which the edge of the head is set.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Cf. Cross, and Crosier

Usage in the news

2009 Delas Frères Crozes- Hermitage 'Le Clos'. latimes.com

Marie-Josée Croze is Jean-Dominique Bauby's devoted 'speech' therapist in Julian Schnabel's 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. metcruz.com

And this Cote de Brouilly from Nicole Chanrion's Domaine de la Voûte des Crozes is a fabulous summer wine. latimes.com

Nicole Chanrion Domaine de la Voûte des Crozes. latimes.com

0 Nicole Chanrion Domaine de la Voûte des Crozes ( Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times ). latimes.com

Enjoying a glass of Syrah-based Crozes-Hermitage and a hearty hamburger at home is enough to bring Scaffidi gastronomic bliss. inemag.com

Usage in literature

Crozes, Mercurol, } Drome. "Memoranda on Tours, Touraine and Central France." by J. H. Holdsworth

They also believed (according to La Croze) that plants had a principle of animation. "Phallic Miscellanies" by Hargrave Jennings

Croze, Cornand La, 109. "The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century" by Charles Bastide