widow's cruse
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nounDefinition of WIDOW'S CRUSE
: an inexhaustible supply
Origin of WIDOW'S CRUSE
from the widow's cruse of oil that miraculously supplies Elijah during a famine (I Kings 17:8–16)
First Known Use: 1729
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