† crabern.
Obsolete. rare.
The water-rat.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Microtidae > genus Arvicola > arvicola amphibius (water-vole)
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1655 I. Walton Compl. Angler (ed. 2) 73 The Cormorant..and the Craber which some call the water-rat.
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