† crab-fishn.
Obsolete.
= crab n.1 1.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Brachyura (crab)
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a1400–50 Alexander 3892 Now comes a company of Crabbe-fische, as calues gret.
1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis iv. f. 6 The Crabfish hauing caught his enmy..Dooth claspe him in on euery side with all his crooked cleas.
1606 G. Chapman Sir Gyles Goosecappe iii. sig. D4 I lay my life some Crabfishe has bitten thee by the tongue, thou speakest so backward still.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Crab The common large crab-fish has its abode from twenty to forty fathom water.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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