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English
Noun
creese (plural creeses)
- Archaic form of kris.
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 103:
- ‘hould any of the men discover you, certainly you will have one of their creeses up to the hilt in your guts.’
1887, Julian Hawthorne, A Tragic Mystery: From the Diary of Inspector Byrnes, page 25:[…] near it is a cluster of weapons of villanous aspect, comprising every thing from a Malayan creese to a sailor's jackknife or a Smith & Wesson revolver.
Verb
creese (third-person singular simple present creeses, present participle creesing, simple past and past participle creesed)
- Archaic form of kris.
1799, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 85, page 170:Attributing this to accident, or some impropriety of conduct on the part of the sailor, he went to enquire personally into the affair; but had no sooner approached the head Boorghese, than the fellow creesed him also, and he fell dead at his feet.
Middle English
Verb
creese
- Alternative form of cresen