Definition of "crust"

crust

/kɹʌst/

noun
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
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  Th' impenetrable crust thy teeth defies.
  1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Fifth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […]
  They […] made the crust for the venison pasty.
  1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 3, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
4. The bread-like base of a pizza.
5. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada) A slice of bread cut from the end of a loaf; the heel.
6. (geology) The outermost layer of the lithosphere of the Earth.
  Quotations
  The crust (a mere 1% of the Earth's volume) is made of lighter melt products from the mantle.
  2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition
7. (astronomy, by extension) The outermost layer of any terrestrial planet.
8. The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
9. (Britain, Australia, informal) A living.
  Quotations
  Like most of us, I am frequently asked by friends and people I meet in business situations or round the dinner table what I do to earn my crust.
  1999, Norman Longworth, Making Lifelong Learning Work: Learning Cities for a Learning Century, Psychology Press, page 1
10. (uncountable, informal) Nerve, gall.
  Quotations
  “Oh?” she said. “So you have decided to revise my guest list for me? You have the nerve, the – the –” I saw she needed helping out. “Audacity,” I said, throwing her the line. “The audacity to dictate to me who I shall have in my house.” It should have been “whom”, but I let it go. “You have the –” “Crust.” “– the immortal rind,” she amended, and I had to admit it was stronger, “to tell me whom” – she got it right that time – “I may entertain at Brinkley Court and who” – wrong again – “I may not.”
  1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins
11. (UK, Australia, slang, dated) The head.
  Quotations
  “Well, all I can say is that if yer don't take yer dial outer the road I'll bloomin' well take an' bounce a gibber off yer crust.”
  1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 90
12. (music) Ellipsis of crust punk (a subgenre of punk music)
verb
third-person singular simple present crusts, present participle crusting, simple past and past participle crusted
1. (transitive) To cover with a crust.
  Quotations
  The whole body is crusted over with ice.
  1662, Robert Boyle, An Account of Freezing
  Their minds are crusted over, like diamonds in the rock.
  1711, Henry Felton, Dissertation on Reading the Classics
2. (intransitive) To form a crust.

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