[Loch-Ruadh] word of the day

[Sam Milligan]

Cool!  I want the gas tank on my truck to work like that.  :)  Ah, heck, I'm not greedy - I wish everybody's gas tank worked that way.  ;)  A gas tank that stayed magically full of gas would be very handy, I think.

Padraig

Madelina wrote:

>The Word of the Day for October 2 is:  widow's cruse * \WIH-dohz-KROOZ or
>WIH-dohz-KROOSS\ * (noun) : an inexhaustible supply
>
>Example sentence:  It often seemed to Connie that her sons thought of the
>refrigerator as a widow's cruse of food that would magically restock itself
>every week.
>
>Did you know?  A cruse is a small metal hanging lamp, such as the one
>featured in the biblical tale of Elijah (1 Kings 17:8-16).  In that story,
>the prophet was sent to a poor widow who had little food and only a single
>cruse for light.  He asked her to share her food and light with him; she
>did, and was rewarded with an ever-burning lamp and an inexhaustible food
>supply.  The term "widow's cruse" recalls the bountiful outcome of that
>tale.
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