Note: This entry has been deprecated, and its single example moved to crucethur n. At issue is a single word in the Peterborough Chronicle. The print MED assumed the validity of the generally accepted reading 'crucethus', generally analyzed as 'crucet-hus', as found in the standard editions of the Chronicle by Earle & Plummer and by Cecily Clark (her first edition, 1959), as did the OED (s.v. crucet-hus n.), Clark-Hall, and Boswoth-Toller. MED also saw fit to reproduce Clark's etymology. However, since a 1961 article by J. Gerritsen ("A Ghost Word...," English Studies 42 (1961), 300-1), opinion has favored the reading 'crucethur': so C. Clark in her second edition (1970), the glossary and commentary in Bennet & Smithers (1964), LAEME, and the Toronto Dictionary of Old English (s.v. crucethur), among others. MED now follows the consensus.