[Ads-l] Antedating of "cruitie"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Recruit. HDAS: 1847. Not in OED.

1838  “Man-of-War’s-Man” _Maritime Sketches_ (Boston: pvtly. ptd.) 100: It
might do some of those _cruities_ a little service, who are going on the
Mediterranean, in the ship Ohio.

JL
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