† ˈcropshinObs. Another form of copshen, corpion, a herring of inferior quality. 1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe 63 It was but a cropshin, (one of the refuse sort of Herrings,) and this Herring or this Cropshin was sensed..in the smoake.1601B. Jonson Poetaster i. ii, Th' art in the right, my venerable Cropshin.