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When ance her ring-banes and spavies, her crucks and cramps, are fairly soupl'd, she beets to, beets to, and aye the hindmost hour the tightest.

From The Letters of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

There is not the slightest evidence for the use of crucks in the present off-site reconstruction of this great pile.

From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Forman, Henry Chandlee

The pairs of trees were known as forks or crucks.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various

When ance her ringbanes and spavies, her crucks and cramps, and fairly soupl’d, she beets to, beets to, and ay the hindmost hour the tightest.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert