† crayn.1
Obsolete.
1. Chalk.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > sedimentary rock > [noun] > chalk
chalk956
cray14..
14.. Recipes in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) 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.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of birds > [noun] > disorders of hawks
crampc1430
frouncea1450
teena1450
crayc1450
ryec1450
aggresteyne1486
agrum1486
fallera1486
filanders1486
gall1575
pantas1575
pin1575
pin gout1575
stroke1575
apoplexy1614
crock1614
formica1614
privy evil1614
back-worma1682
verol1688
croak1707
c1450 Bk. Hawking in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 294 An yvell y-callyd the cray, that is when an hawke may not mute.
c1450 Bk. Hawking in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 295 The Cray comyth of wasch mete, that is wasch in hote water, in defaute of hote mete.
1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 311 The stone or Cray.
1618 S. Latham New & 2nd Bk. Falconrie xxx. 134 This disease..that wee call.. the Craye, is of an exiccatiue or astringent qualitie.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
crayn.2
/kreɪ/, U.S. /kreɪ/, Australian English /kræe/, New Zealand English /kræe/ Chiefly Australian and New Zealand.
= crayfish n. Also attributive.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > lobster > crayfish
scrayfish1309
river crab?c1425
crayfisha1475
crevis fish1688
rock lobster1810
koura1847
Murray crayfish1880
yabby1886
cray1906
marron1943
mudbug1955
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [adjective] > of or belonging to Malacostraca > of the Thoracostraca > related to or having characteristic of lobster > of cray-fish
cray1906
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Macrura > member of family Astacidae
scrayfish1309
crayfisha1475
crevis fish1688
lobster1826
koura1847
yabby1886
cray1906
1906 R. 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.].
1916 C. J. Dennis Moods of Ginger Mick 46 We'll 'ave a cray fer supper when I comes a-marchin' 'ome.
1933 Bulletin (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.
1966 T. C. Roughley Fish & Fisheries Austral. 124 Cray-fishing is a dangerous occupation as the home of the crays is along the sandstone reefs of the mainland.
1970 Australian 14 May 6/1 There would seem little connection between the price of craytails in New York and the destruction of wildlife in Australia.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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