crab yaws

noun

A disease in the West Indies; a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with very hard edges.

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nouncrab yaws pl (plural only)
  1. obsoletepluralplural onlyrareA disease in the West Indies; a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with very hard edges.

    The fungous excrescences on the soles of the feet; called crab yaws, often prove very obstinate , and remain a long time after the disease has totally disappeared in other parts

    1803, Thomas Masterman Winterbottom, An Account of the Native Africans in the Neighbourhood of Sierra Leone
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