crosier

noun

variants or crozier
Definition of crosiernext
as in crook

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Recent Examples of crosier Some of these coins feature a bishop holding a crozier in his right hand, as noted in the press release. — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 12 Oct. 2025 Monsignor Laurent Ulrich, the archbishop of Paris, will then officially reopen the cathedral by banging his crosier on the main door. — Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 29 Nov. 2024 McElroy moved slowly during the service, often resting his hands on a wooden crosier, a staff shaped like a shepherd’s crook. — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crosier
  1. crook
  2. hammer
  3. gavel
  4. mallet
  5. walking stick
  6. beetle
  7. maul
Noun
  • In a key role, Gathegi will play a small-time crook with big time ambitions who is in over his head, according to sources.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2026
  • The crook, wearing a green Nike Tech sweatsuit, fled empty handed west on 35th Ave.
    — Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of crook
Noun
  • Prosecutors say Widdecombe was eating lunch in her Devon home July 8, when Kerry allegedly walked through the front door, beat her 21 times in the head with a hammer, took her wallet and was gone in an attack that lasted only two minutes.
    — Tyler Speicher, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • She had been struck 21 times with a hammer, a court previously heard.
    — Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of hammer
Noun
  • During a recent interview with Fox News Digital, Levy shared the advice that Sheindlin gave him before the television icon handed off the gavel to her son.
    — Ashley Hume , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Jefferies, of New York, is in line to take the speaker’s gavel if Democrats win a majority in the House of Representatives in November.
    — Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of gavel
Noun
  • The butt of the Axvant is designed to double as a mallet, mostly for knocking in tent stakes and taking care of other basic, non-precision hammering.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Perez was assaulted by two men who used a bicycle and a mallet as weapons.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of mallet
Noun
  • In the parking lot, Schenk offered us walking sticks for our hike, then led us through a gate in a chain-link fence meant to keep out wild pigs.
    — Julie Orringer, Travel + Leisure, 9 June 2026
  • Its contents range from 19th-century anti-aging pills, to biologist Charles Darwin’s walking stick, to striking nude self-portraits by then-sexagenarian British photographer John Coplans.
    — Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 2 Apr. 2026
Definition of walking stick
Noun
  • The brothel is huge and painted black, like a plump beetle luxuriating in the sun, and the opulence of its internal decoration is matched by Kate herself.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Unfortunately for fans of the franchise, the beetle has come for an Owens this time, not one of their lovers.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of beetle
Noun
  • The Wallaroos scored three tries in eight minutes; the first from a rolling maul that cost Scotland's Evie Gallagher a yellow card.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026
  • While many college corners lean on lax officiating to grab and maul, Johnson stays disciplined.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
Definition of maul

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