kraut

Clipping of sauerkraut, from German Sauerkraut. Compare German Kraut (“cabbage”).

kraut (countable and uncountable, plural krauts)

1. Clipping of sauerkraut.
   • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

     The bacon fat and the browned ribs and the boiling kraut smelled good.

kraut (third-person singular simple present krauts, present participle krauting, simple past and past participle krauted)

1. To make (into) sauerkraut.
   • 1919, J. M. Smith, Muskogee Co., Okla., letter in Market Growers Journal, page 337:

     I find more money in krauting Cabbage myself and marketing the kraut, as […]

   • 1961, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture, Perishable Agricultural Commodities: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session on H.R. 5023, Aug. 9 and 10, 1961, page 119:

     The same applies to the brining of cucumbers […] and krauting cabbage.

   • 2017 June 22, Franca Iacovetta, Paula Draper, Robert Ventresca, A Nation of Immigrants: Women, Workers, and Communities in Canadian History, 1840s-1960s, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN:

     They krauted cabbage, picked saskatoons and dried them for the winter. The whole family contributed to the welfare of the home for there was no room for a drone in their midst.

• 2021 October 21, Harold F. Farwell, J. Karl Nicholas, Smoky Mountain Voices: A Lexicon of Southern Appalachian Speech Based on the Research of Horace Kephart, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN:

  kraut: v.t. [to make sauerkraut.] "I don't do like old Mis' Posey, kraut my cabbage whole" (A; J 2:429). "Mrs. Barnett and I, in one day, cut up 100 lbs. of cabbage and 'krauted it' all, […] (J 2:419).

kraut (plural krauts)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Kraut (“German person”).

• Kartu, kurta

• (obsolete spelling) kŗaut

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *kráuˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *krewH-. Cognate with Lithuanian kráuti, Proto-Slavic *krỳti (“to cover”) (whence Russian крыть (krytʹ), Polish kryć, Czech krýt), Old English hrēodan (“to cover”), Ancient Greek κρύπτω (krúptō, “I hide, I conceal”).

kraut (transitive, 1st conjugation, present krauju, krauj, krauj, past krāvu)

1. to pile, to stack, to load

• apkraut
• iekraut
• izkraut
• sakraut
• uzkraut

• krava (“cargo, freight”)
• krāvējs (“stacker”)