† scrayfishn.
Obsolete.
A crayfish.
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river crab?c1425
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crevis fish1688
rock lobster1810
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Murray crayfish1880
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cray1906
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Macrura > member of family Astacidae
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cray1906
1309–10 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 6 De lx de Scrafisse.
1333–4 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 20 In xxvij Skrafysch, playc' [etc.].
1355–6 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 555 Et in 30 Skrafisshes empt. pro d'no Priore. 5s. 9d.
1397 in J. Raine Charters Priory Finchale (1837) p. cxviii Item vj scraffysch.
1483 Cath. Angl. 324/2 Scrayfysche (MS. A Scrafysche); vbi stokfysche.
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