† cropshinn.
Obsolete.
Another form of copshen, corpion n., a herring of inferior quality.
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1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 65 It was but a cropshin, one of the refuse sort of herrings, and this herring or this cropshin was sensed..in the smoake.
1602 B. Jonson Poetaster i. ii. sig. B Th' art in the right, my venerable Cropshin . View more context for this quotation
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