Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
crawfish .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. The crawfish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, dialect The
crawfish .
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Examples
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Jumping out of a plane, falling into a crevis in the ground, open chute in said crevis. both parties survive.
Bond 23 to Have a Shocking Story, Says Screenwriter Peter Morgan | /Film 2009
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The magic tonight come from me, I have my own beautifulness that expells from each pore and splendid crevis.
simplymine Diary Entry simplymine 2003
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So think I (quoth another) for the outragious poyson of madness hath killed him, but being thus in divers opinions of a poore Ass, they looked through a crevis, and espied me standing still, sober and quiet in the middle of the chamber; then they opened the doores, and came towards me, to prove whether I were gentle or no.
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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Shawgashee -- shaw-ga-shee '-- is the fresh-water lobster, more properly the crawfish, its name being from the Latin crevis, French ècrevisse.
Hiawatha; a poem, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Illustrated by John Rea Neill. 1856
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I directed the Canoes to land, and I walked up through a crevis in the rocks almost inaxcessiable and killed 2 of those animals one a large doe and the other a yearlin Buck.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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So think I (quoth another) for the outragious poyson of madness hath killed him, but being thus in divers opinions of a poore Ass, they looked through a crevis, and espied me standing still, sober and quiet in the middle of the chamber; then they opened the doores, and came towards me, to prove whether I were gentle or no.
The Golden Asse 1566
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I bet ellen wanted to smells miley's crevis ..... i bet ellens smells like feta cheese and scallions
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I bet ellen wanted to smells miley's crevis ..... i bet ellens smells like feta cheese and scallions
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Historically, some examples include mushroom, from the French mousseron; crayfish, from the French crevis; and Cape Despair, from Cape d'espoir (Cape Hope).
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