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▪ I. † cray1 Obs.
Also 7 craye.
[a. F. craie:—OF. creie:—L. crēta chalk. Also in F. in sense 2, for which another name is pierre stone.]
1. Chalk.
14..Recipes in Rel. Antiq. I. 52 Do tharto cray that thir parchemeners wirkes withall.
2. A disease of hawks, in which the excrements become excessively hard and are passed with difficulty.
c1450Bk. Hawking in Rel. Ant. I. 294 An yvell y-callyd the cray, that is when an hawke may not mute. Ibid. 295 The Cray comyth of wasch mete, that is wasch in hote water, in defaute of hote mete. 1575Turberv. Faulconrie 311 The Stone or Cray. 1618Latham 2nd Bk. Falconry (1633) 134 This disease..that wee call.. the Craye, is of an exiccatiue or astringent qualitie.
▪ II. cray2 Chiefly Austral. and N.Z.
= crayfish. Also attrib.
1906R. E. Vernède Meriel of Moors viii. 49 ‘There iddn't everybody 'ud like to be clipped by a cray.’..‘Bring the crays, Micky.’..Micky having shouldered the handkerchief full of cray-fish [etc.]. 1916C. J. Dennis Ginger Mick 46 We'll 'ave a cray fer supper when I comes a-marchin' 'ome. 1933Bulletin (Sydney) 13 Sept. 20/3 Every drawing of a cray I have studied for years past shows the convivial crustacean with huge claws like the Atlantic lobster. a1939‘R. Hyde’ Houses by Sea (1952) 116 As fishers..boats that bob across the bay Setting their cray-pots in the island's shadow. 1966T. C. Roughley Fish & Fisheries Australia 124 Cray-fishing is a dangerous occupation as the home of the crays is along the sandstone reefs of the mainland. 1970Australian 14 May 6/1 There would seem little connection between the price of craytails in New York and the destruction of wildlife in Australia. |