crosse

From French crosse (“stick”).

crosse (plural crosses)

1. A lacrosse stick.

Rarely used outside of the game's rulebooks; "stick" is preferred during practice and gameplay.

• Croses, Secors, Sorces, cessor, corses, orcess, scores, scorse

From Middle French crosse, from Old French crosse (“shepherd's staff”), from a Germanic language, likely Frankish *krukkija, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *krukjō (“staff, crutch”). Compare Old High German krucka, Old Saxon krukka, Middle Dutch crucke, English crutch.

• IPA^(key): /kʁɔs/

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crosse f (plural crosses)

1. butt (of rifle etc.)
2. stick
3. crosier
4. (France, sports) hockey stick, lacrosse stick, or golf club
5. lacrosse

   Synonym: lacrosse

• “crosse” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• corses
• scores

• IPA^(key): /kʀɔs/

From Latin crusta.

crosse f (plural crosses)

1. crust (outer layer of bread and pastry).

• pice-crosse
• cache-ås-crosses

From Frankish *krukkja.

crosse f (plural crosses)

1. crook, crosier.
2. crutch.
3. butt.

• crossete
• crossî