partan
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of partan
1375–1425; late Middle English ( Scots ) < Scots Gaelic: crab
Example Sentences
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The male of the black-clawed crab, Cancer pagurus; also of the partan or common crab.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
Si manūsh dikela pāno panna, te partan te diklo apré o pani te lela lis, adovo sikela astis lel a pireni, o yuzhior te o kushtidir o partan se, o kushtidir i rakli.
From The Gypsies by Leland, Charles Godfrey
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