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partan

[ pahr-tn ]

noun

, Scot.
  1. a crab.


partan

/ ˈpartən; ˈpɑːtən /

noun

  1. a Scot word for crab 1 crab 1
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of partan1

1375–1425; late Middle English ( Scots ) < Scots Gaelic: crab
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Word History and Origins

Origin of partan1

C15: of Celtic origin
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Example Sentences

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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