Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An edible sea-crab.
- noun A crabbed, sour, cross-looking person.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. An edible British crab.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, dialect An
edible British crab .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Presently a boat, that was backed like a partan-crab, came gingerly alongside, and the skipper of it hailed our master in the Dutch.
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Si manush dikela pano panna, te partan te diklo apre o pani te lela lis, adovo sikela astis lel a pireni, o yuzhior te o kushtidir o partan se, o kushtidir i rakli.
The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863
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` ` and here's the fourth man coming clinking in at the yett e'en now from the stable, for he's shelled like a partan, wi 'airn on back and breast, haunch and shanks.
A Legend of Montrose 1871
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"In troth did ye say sae, Allan," said the old Highlander, "and here's the fourth man coming clinking in at the yett e'en now from the stable, for he's shelled like a partan, wi 'airn on back and breast, haunch and shanks.
A Legend of Montrose Walter Scott 1801
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