Definition of "crosse" [crosse]

• Sports The stick used in lacrosse. (noun)

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• "Papa, who was near me, explained to me that this was called a crozier (crosse), which puzzled me, as crosse is also the name for the drumstick of a chicken."
• "In French Quebecer slang, a crosse is a rude word to describe male sexual self-gratification, to remain in polite terms."
• "C.xxxvii. yardes and a halfe long (for the length therof wilbe as moche as the breadth of all the lodgynges) and shall likewise be xxii. yardes and a half broad, and shalbe called the crosse waie."