crost

• Rhymes: -ɒst

crost (plural crosts)

1. Eye dialect spelling of cross.
   • 1901, Stewart Edward White, The Claim Jumpers‎:

     Them claims marked with a crost belongs to th' Company.

crost

1. (archaic or poetic) simple past tense and past participle of cross
   • 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5‎:

     […] I did espie Where towards me a sory wight did cost*, Clad all in black, that mourning did bewray, And Iacob staffe in hand devoutly crost, Like to some pilgrim come from farre away.

• ctors, torcs