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.

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  • noun UK, dialect The crawfish.

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Examples

  • 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

  • The magic tonight come from me, I have my own beautifulness that expells from each pore and splendid crevis.

    simplymine Diary Entry simplymine 2003

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • I bet ellen wanted to smells miley's crevis ..... i bet ellens smells like feta cheese and scallions

    The Velvet Hot Tub | Freshest Stories 2008

  • I bet ellen wanted to smells miley's crevis ..... i bet ellens smells like feta cheese and scallions

    What Would Tyler Durden Do 2008

  • Historically, some examples include mushroom, from the French mousseron; crayfish, from the French crevis; and Cape Despair, from Cape d'espoir (Cape Hope).

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 1 No 4 1974

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