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Crevis

noun

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Noun
  1. 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. 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."

Etymology

From Middle English crevis, from Old French crevice (“crayfish”). Doublet of crevette, crayfish, crawfish, and Krebs.

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