# crevis
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English crevis, from Old French crevice (“crayfish”).

### Noun

crevis (plural crevises)
* (UK, dialect) The crayfish.
** 1575, R.B., Appius and Virginia, page 11: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?
** 1903, Sidney Lanier, Shakspere and His Forerunners, page 88: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.
** 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: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.
* Alternative form of crevice
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Fairie Queene:Till at the last I spide within the same where one stood peeping through a crevis small.
** 1659, Thomas Hooker, The Application of Redemption: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,
** 1775, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, A Voyage to the Isle of Mauritius, page 40:I saw a flash of light'ning through the crevis of the porthole, and heard it thunder.
** 1920, Thomas Maitland Marshall, Early Records of Gilpin County, Colorado, 1859-1861, page 37:Be it further enacted that each Discovey 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.
** 1949, Harry Belleville Eisberg, J. E. Owens, Fundamentals of Arctic and Cold Weather Medicine and Dentistry, page 197:Irrigation under tissue flap partially covering the tooth and application of glycerite of iodine and zinc, into the tissue crevis surrounding the tooth.
** 1949, Harold Evans, Men in the Tropics: A Colonial Anthology, page 142:He has a joynt or crevis about an inch within the utmost edge of his shell, which goes round about his body from his head to his tail, on his belly side; into which joynt or crevis, you put your knife, beginning at the head, and so rip up that side, and then do as much to the other;
** 1970, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, Dental Technician, page 93:The edge of the free gingiva is the gingival margin (gingival crest) and the gingval sulcus is the crevis between the free gingiva and the tooth.
** 2013, M.P. Hingos, Steele Hearts: Revelations, page 74:Thoughts of the end of Connor and I looming near by and the fact that I would be in Chicago, the closest I would be to Iowas in years, the place where I was born and grew up in, thoughts of the family I left there that threaten to break out of the deep crevis of my brain where I keep them locked, all rush into my head, giving me a dull headache.
** 2019, Ilan Rotstein, John I. Ingle, Ingle's Endodontics:Clinical examination revealed coronal color change of the tooth involved and pus draining from the gingival crevis.

### Anagrams

* scrive

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* crevyse, creuez, crevez, crevise, creveys, crevesse, krevys

### Etymology

From Old French crevice, from Frankish *krebitja, diminutive of Frankish *krebit (“crab”), from Proto-Germanic *krabitaz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkrɛvis(ə)/, /ˈkrɛviːs(ə)/

### Noun

crevis (plural crevis or crevesses)
* crayfish, lobster

#### Descendants

* English: crevis; crayfish, crawfish (influenced by fish)

#### References

* “crevī̆se, n. sg. & pl.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-07.