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ˈcrab-stock
[f. crab n.2]
1. A young crab-tree or wild apple-tree used as a stock to graft upon; fig. a person or thing of wild or unreclaimed nature.
a1625Fletcher Nt.-Walker i. i, Graft me a dainty medlar on his crabstock. 1672Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 47 There may be such a Crab-stock as cannot by all ingrafting be corrected. 1708J. Philips Cyder i. 18 The Crabstock's close-wrought grain. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) xx. 281 You know me well enough by this time, young Crab-stock, to make a pretty good guess.
2. Pottery. Used attrib. to denote parts of eighteenth-century English stoneware. Also absol.
1909A. Hayden Eng. Earthenware vi. 212 A teapot enamelled in colours having what is known as a ‘crabstock’ handle, spout, and lid. 1924Rackham & Read Eng. Pott. vi. 93 The handle and the spout were moulded in the form of a short length of woody stem—the so-called ‘crabstock’. 1956G. Taylor Silver vii. 157 A tea pot of 1748..its crab-stock spout and handles. |