Noun: crevis
| Singular | crevis |
| Plural | crevises |
Sample Sentences
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By the gods, I know not how best to devise My name or my property well to disguise. A merchant, a may-pole, a man or a mackerel, A crab or a crevis, a crane or a cokerel? [1575, R.B., Appius and Virginia, page 11:]
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The fifth pair had each a fair large tray, strewed with fresh grass; and in them conger, burt, mullet, fresh herrings, oysters, salmon, crevis, and such like, from Neptunas, God of the sea. [1903, Sidney Lanier, Shakspere and His Forerunners, page 88:]
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In the household of Joan Holand, crayfish or lobsters (crevis) appeared on 26 and 27 February 1378 and on 1 and 2 October in the same year; at Hunstanton one crevis was served on Good Friday 1349; none appeared at Frampton. [1995, Christopher Woolgar, “Diet and Consumption in Gentry and Noble Households title=Rulers and Ruled in Late Medieval England”, in G. L. Harriss, Rowena E. Archer, Simon Walker, editor, (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 28:]
Nouns inflected like crevis
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English crevis, from Old French crevice (“crayfish”). Doublet of crevette, crayfish, crawfish, and Krebs. See: Middle English Nouns '
crevis'.