Crevis
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The crayfish. UK, dialectal
"By the gods, I know not how best to devise My name or my property well to disguise. A merchant, a may-pole, a man or a mackerel, A crab or a crevis, a crane or a cokerel?"
- 2 Alternative form of crevice. alt-of, alternative
"Till at the last I spide within the same where one stood peeping through a crevis small."
Example
More examples"By the gods, I know not how best to devise My name or my property well to disguise. A merchant, a may-pole, a man or a mackerel, A crab or a crevis, a crane or a cokerel?"
Etymology
From Middle English crevis, from Old French crevice (“crayfish”). Doublet of crevette, crayfish, crawfish, and Krebs.
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