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[ UK /kɹˈʌst/ ]
[ US /ˈkɹəst/ ]
VERB
  1. form a crust or form into a crust
    The bread crusted in the oven
NOUN
  1. the outer layer of the Earth
  2. the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties
  3. a hard outer layer that covers something

How To Use crust In A Sentence

  • It was a beautiful wooden skiff, with a little outboard motor, perfect for his part-time second occupation of working a few pots to catch crustacea to sell to local pubs and restaurants.
  • There was no crust of stalagmite overlying the mud in which the human skeleton was found, and no bones of other animals in the mud with the skeleton; but just before our visit in 1860 the tusk of a bear had been met with in some mud in a lateral embranchment of the cave, in a situation precisely similar to b, Figure 1, and on a level corresponding with that of the human skeleton. The Antiquity of Man
  • Do you think the Academy is really hip to how great Gosford Park is, or do they just like it's patina of British upper-crust respectability?
  • The composition of displaced terranes ranges from that of typical oceanic crust to significantly less dense granitic rock with clear continental affinities.
  • I do not want to see or smell your funky feet, crusty heels or unpedicured toes.
  • Its purpose is to gather sufficient information to answer questions about magma chambers in oceanic crust.
  • The upper layer of a plate is composed of either oceanic or continental crust or both.
  • The established idea that granitoid magmas ascend through the continental crust as diapirs is being increasingly questioned by igneous and structural geologists.
  • Cut off the crust from one of the loaves and slice thinly. Times, Sunday Times
  • The closely-packed _mitraille_ tore the icy crust into powder, fifty yards beyond the doomed bird, which settled, throbbing with a mortal tremor, upon the ice, shot through the head. Adrift in the Ice-Fields
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