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partan
[ pahr-tn ]
noun
- a crab.
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Origin of partan1
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Origin of partan1
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A surfeit of partan-pie, after the triumphant termination of a law-suit, threw the burghs into a state of anarchy.
Questioned again and again by his Mistress Partan as to what was amiss with him, he had given her odd and evasive answers.
Thereupon the Partan and Jamie Ladle jumped into a small boat and pulled out.
With these views he hired himself to the Partan, whose boat's crew was short-handed.
But the marquis found even the hen-pecked Partan a nobler and more elevating presence than any strutting platitude of Bond street.
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