cruise n [phonetics unavailable]. Cp OED ~ sb b transf.
   1 A walk, ramble, trip on foot.
   [1794] 1968 THOMAS 155 I had a cruize to myself around this Bay. In my perambulations I met with a few Mushrooms on the borders of a Bog. [c1894] PANL P4/14, p. 200 'I ain't had a cruise to-year.' 1925 Dial Notes v, 329 ~ a long walk. P 191-73 Let's go for a cruce.
   2 A trip or drive in a vehicle.
   1906 LUMSDEN 53 Every trip was a cruise, whether by sea or by land, and there was no commoner question than this: 'Bound for a cruise to-day. sir?' P 262-58 ~ often used for a drive in a car.
   3 An excursion or journey on dog-sled.
   1894 Evening Herald 12 Dec I thought about the time ... my poor John and me went up for a cruise to my sister Hannah's house. 1920 GRENFELL & SPALDING 136 Last week I had a three days' 'cruise' while the doctor considerately sent a nurse up here to try her hand at my family. This time the cruise was 'on the dogs' instead.of the rolling sea. P 245-67 [Labrador 'livyers'] would go for a cruise on their dog-teams.
   4 A visit with relatives or friends; pleasurable journey (P 152-58).
   1933 MERRICK 16 Like the few others who have ever been 'outside' from here he'd like to go again some day for 'a cruise' just to see the movies and the lights and all the incomprehensible things people do, but never to live.
   5 Hunting expedition.
   [1770] 1792 CARTWRIGHT i, 59 Ned and Milmouth returned on Saturday, with a brace of spruce-game... I sent them out again on another cruise. [1775] ibid ii, 62 I took a cruise over Lyon Head and Eyre Island and ... killed a yellow fox with a greyhound. 1889 HOWLEY MS Reminiscences 42 After dinner I went for a long cruise taking my gun with me. Travelled in on our path nearly a mile and then took a lead of marshes running eastward. 1914 WALLACE 187 'Tisn't th' havin' a poor cruise now an' again's what's botherin' me.

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