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(slang, obsolete) Bread. quotations
He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.
1820-23, Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia