crevis

plural crevises

1. UKdialectalThe crayfish.

   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?

   1575, R.B., Appius and Virginia, page 11

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   The fifth pair had each a fair large tray, strewed with fresh grass; and in them conger, burt, mullet, fresh herrings, oysters, salmon, crevis, and such like, from Neptunas, God of the sea.

   1903, Sidney Lanier, Shakspere and His Forerunners, page 88

   In the household of Joan Holand, crayfish or lobsters (crevis) appeared on 26 and 27 February 1378 and on 1 and 2 October in the same year; at Hunstanton one crevis was served on Good Friday 1349; none appeared at Frampton.

   1995, Christopher Woolgar, “Diet and Consumption in Gentry and Noble Households title=Rulers and Ruled in Late Medieval England”, in G. L. Harriss, Rowena E. Archer, Simon Walker, editor, (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 28

plural crevises

1. alternativeAlternative form of crevice.

   I saw a flash of light'ning through the crevis of the porthole, and heard it thunder.

   1775, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, A Voyage to the Isle of Mauritius, page 40

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   Till at the last I spide within the same where one stood peeping through a crevis small.

   1590, Edmund Spenser, The Fairie Queene

   It's the traversing of a mans thoughts, the coasting of the mind and imagination into every crevis and corner, pryes into every particular, takes a special view of the borders and confines of any corruption or condition that comes to be scanned,

   1659, Thomas Hooker, The Application of Redemption

   Be it further enacted that each Discovey ^([sic]) claim shall be plainly marked and staked with the name of the person, who shall have discovered the same plainly written thereon, and a hole or shaft shall be sunk on the same to the crevis thereof, and the same shall be recorded as other claims and in all cases each discovery claim shall be as plainly described on the Records as possible, and a penalty of Ten Dollars shall be imposed upon any one removing or defacing stake or land mark.

   1920, Thomas Maitland Marshall, Early Records of Gilpin County, Colorado, 1859-1861, page 37

   Irrigation under tissue flap partially covering the tooth and application of glycerite of iodine and zinc, into the tissue crevis surrounding the tooth.

   1949, Harry Belleville Eisberg, J. E. Owens, Fundamentals of Arctic and Cold Weather Medicine and Dentistry, page 197

   He has a joynt or crevis about an inch within the utmost edge of his shell, which goes round about his body from his head to his tail, on his belly side; into which joynt or crevis, you put your knife, beginning at the head, and so rip up that side, and then do as much to the other;

   1949, Harold Evans, Men in the Tropics: A Colonial Anthology, page 142