Obs. Another form of copshen, CORPION, a herring of inferior quality.
1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe, 63. It was but a cropshin, (one of the refuse sort of Herrings,) and this Herring or this Cropshin was sensed … in the smoake.
1601. B. Jonson, Poetaster, I. ii. Th’ art in the right, my venerable Cropshin.
