A Dictionary of Non-Scientific Names of Freshwater Crayfishes ...

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crefysshe Although freshwater crayfishes are found
naturally in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize,
this is a doubtful reference to freshwater crayfishes
sensu stricto, as the description apparently is of animals
inhabiting southern Central America, probably Panama.
More likely, the animals referred to were atyid
shrimps. ".. .full of gressehoppers, grylles, crabbes or
crefysshes...." [U.K.: Middle English?] Eden,
1555:115. See crefyshe and creuysshe.
creifis ASTACIDAE [Romania] Schoenkron,
1952:100.
crepel = "a little creeper, or crawfish." ASTACI­
DAE [U.K.: Old English] Bosworth, 1881:61. Toller,
1921:134, says crepel = crib. In this case, crib
may be a form of crab, as in Wright, 1898, vol. 1:761.
But Toller, 1898:170, shows crepel = a burrow.
There may be a certain obscure consistency in all of
this.
creues ASTACIDAE "A creues, dyght hym thus:
depart hym a-sonder, & sly tee the belly...." [U.K.:
Middle English] Wynken de Worde, 1413, in Furnivall,
1868, page 281, line 20.
creuesses ASTACIDAE "Pan comes dare-out creuesses
-of many kins hewis, Scorpions bairn to scere •&
scalid neddirs, And bai so large & so laith •& so lowd
schrikis, bat all be soile of ba sidis...." [U.K.: Middle
English; probably 1400-1450] The Wars of Alexander,
edited from MS. Ashmole 44 in the Bodlean Library,
Oxford, and MS. D.4.12 in the Library of Trinity
College, Dublin, by Walter W. Skeat 1886:219, line
3864. Hendrickson, 1987:139, says crayfish, first
recorded as creuesse in England early in the 15th
century, was corrupted to crayfish by 1597, but he
gives no additional details; he may have this reference
in mind. See crevesses. But also see creuez and creuis,
dating from 1390-1 and 1345-6, respectively.
creuez ASTACIDAE "Item, pro pikerell et creuez, j
due. lxviij s." [U.K.: Middle English] Expeditions to
Prussia and the Holy Land... 1390-1 and 1392-3, in
Smith, Lucy T., 1894, 215/20.
creuis ASTACIDAE "In creuis empt. pro pitancia
Conuentus." [U.K.: Middle English, 14th century]
Sacrist Rolls of Ely, 1345-6, in Chapman, 1908, vol.
2:129; "The tayle of a lobster, or river Creuis."
[U.K.: Middle English] Dodoens, 1557:60.
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creuviche ASTACIDAE, Astacus astacus (Astacus
nobilis, A. fluviatilis, and Potamobius fluviatilis).
[France] Gozmany, 1979:118. Andre, 1960:133,
specifies Bourgogne; Rolland, 1881:230, specifies Coted'Or.
creuvisse ASTACIDAE, Astacus astacus (A. nobilis,
A. fluviatilis, and Potamobius fluviatilis). [France]
Gozmany, 1979:118. Andre, 1960:133, specifies Bourgogne;
Belloc, 1899:141. specifies Cote-d'Or.
creuysshe ASTACIDAE "...hath in the steade of
flesshe a certeyne substance like vnto the flesshe of
creuysshes" [U.K.: Middle English] Eden, 1555:302.
See crefysshe.
creveiceron ASTACIDAE, "petite ecrevisse."
[France: 13th century] Greimas, 1969:150-151.
crevesses ASTACIDAE "Than comes thare out
crevesses/ of manykins hewis/ Scorpions thaim to
scere/and scalid neddirs...." [U.K.: Middle English;
1400-1450] Stevenson, 1849, line 3864. Note that this
is another rendition of the same manuscript described
under creuesses, above, but using the "th" instead of
the thorn and a v instead of a u in crevesses.
crevet ASTACIDAE [Netherlands] van Maerlant,
1266-1269 (1878), Boek V:9, footnote to line 252.
crevette ASTACIDAE [Netherlands] van Maerlant,
1266-1269(1878), p. 10, foot- note to line 274.
creveys ASTACIDAE [U.K.: Middle English]
Anonymous, 1460, Ms. K.
crevez dew douz ASTACIDAE "...to rost Eles/
lampurnes/ Crevez dew douz, and breme de mere...."
[U.K.: England; Middle English] Russell, ca. 1475, in
Furnivall, 1868:174, line 848.
crevice (Sense 1) ASTACIDAE, [France: end of
13th century] Belloc, 1899:141, referring to Belon,
1555; [France: 11-14th centuries, dialects of northern
France (Langue d'Oil)] Bos, 1891:114; "(A) crevice,
first a spron frey, then a shrimp, then a sprawn, and
when it is large then called a crevice." [U.K.: English]
Randle Holme ca. 1688, quoted by Phipson, 1883:435;
"Crab, cray-fish, or crevice" [U.K.: Middle English]
Ainsworth, 1783. Said by Rolland, 1881:230, to be
related to Old High German Krebiz, and to date from