Obs. = CRAB sb.1 1.
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 3892. Now comes a company of Crabbe-fische, as calues gret.
1565. Golding, Ovid’s Met., IV. (1593), 90. The crab-fish having caught his enemie … Doth clasp him in on every side with all his crooked cleas.
1606. Sir G. Goosecappe, III. i. in Bullen, O. Pl., III. 42. I lay my life some Crabfish has bitten thee by the tongue, thou speakest so backward still.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Suppl., s.v. Crab, The common large crab-fish has its abode from twenty to forty fathom water.
