crevis

noun

1. (UK, dialectal)The crayfish.

   “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?”

   “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.”

   “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.”

2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of crevice.

   “Till at the last I spide within the same where one stood peeping through a crevis small.”

   “It's the traversing of a mans thoughts, the coasting of the mind and imagination into every crevis and corner, pryes into every particular, takes a special view of the borders and confines of any corruption or condition that comes to be scanned,”

   “I saw a flash of light'ning through the crevis of the porthole, and heard it thunder.”

   “Be it further enacted that each Discovey ^([sic]) claim shall be plainly marked and staked with the name of the person, who shall have discovered the same plainly written thereon, and a hole or shaft shall be sunk on the same to the crevis thereof, and the same shall be recorded as other claims and in all cases each discovery claim shall be as plainly described on the Records as possible, and a penalty of Ten Dollars shall be imposed upon any one removing or defacing stake or land mark.”

   “Irrigation under tissue flap partially covering the tooth and application of glycerite of iodine and zinc, into the tissue crevis surrounding the tooth.”