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crabba

crabba, ~o [ME crabbe] 1 crab. scabri, pisces similes lopostum [l. lopostri] GlC S 174; s1268 cum debuisset [de flumine Thayensi] extrahi, inventi sunt super ventrem ejus duo scrabones mire turpitudinis, pedes suos ‥ in ipso ventre fixos habentes Chr. Melrose 213; 1290 item die Dominica sequenti in mare: in creviciis et ~is, iiij d. (Chanc. Misc. 22/1/22) Doc. Scot. I 150. 2 part of mill. 1325 in v ~is ponendis et reparandis in dicto molendino de novo MinAc 1148/6.

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