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Definition crust

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin crusta (“hard outer covering”) via Anglo-Norman and Old French cruste, from Proto-Indo-European *krustós (“hardened”), from *krews- (“to form a crust, begin to freeze”), related to Old Norse hroðr (“scurf”), Old English hruse (“earth”), Old High German hrosa (“crust, ice”), Latvian kruvesis (“frozen mud”), Ancient Greek ????? (krúos, “frost, icy cold”), ?????????? (krústallos, “crystal, ice”), Avestan ???????-‎ (xruzdra-, “hard”), Sanskrit ?????? (kr??, “thicken, make hard”)

Noun

crust (countable and uncountable, plural crusts)

1. A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary.
2. The external, hardened layer of certain foodstuffs, including most types of bread, fried meat, etc.
3. An outer layer composed of pastry
4. The bread-like base of a pizza.
5. (geology) The outermost layer of the lithosphere of the Earth.
6. The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
7. (uncountable, informal) Nerve, gall.
8. (music) Ellipsis of crust punk (a subgenre of punk music)
9. (Britain, informal) A living.

Verb

crust (third-person singular simple present crusts, present participle crusting, simple past and past participle crusted)

1. (transitive) To cover with a crust.
2. (intransitive) To form a crust.

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