craber
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Etymology[edit]
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Noun[edit]
craber (plural crabers)
- (archaic) The water rat.
- 1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […], OCLC 1097101645:
- the craber, which some call the water-rat […]
References[edit]
“craber” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.