n.
- the tough outer part of a loaf of bread.
▸a hard, dry scrap of bread.
- a hardened layer or coating on something soft.
▸a layer of pastry covering a pie.
- the outermost layer of rock of which a planet consists, especially the part of the earth above the mantle.
- a deposit of tartrates and other substances formed in wine aged in the bottle, especially port.
- Brit. informal a living or livelihood:
earning a crust.
v.
[
often as adj. crusted]
form into or cover with a crust:
crusted port.
Derivative
Etymology
ME: from OFr. crouste, from L. crusta ‘rind, shell, crust’.