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356 COD— CRAB
COD. — Bodacli, bodach-ruadh ; Cilean, cilig ; Feilteag ; Glas-
iasg ; Trosg.
Bil, bleu, brazier (Ii*.), brodie (fry) ; Clielyiige, codlin. codling ;
Doondie (lean), dorse (Baltic), droiid, duncan ; Greenfish ;
Habberdyn or habberdine-fish (salted), hettle codlin ; Kabbelow,
keelin, keeling, keiling, keling, killin (large), kleg ; Peerie codlin,
pootie, pooty, poullach (half-grown), pout, purr (young) ; Redware
or rock cod, ruggie (small, worthless — Ork.) ; Scots Willie,
skinners, staiblins (half-grown), stuckie, sweltin-cod (poor) ;
Tamlin (salted), tangle or tanny-cod, thick codlin (good), etc.
The term " kabbelow " applies to codfish half dried in the sun.
The dorse or Baltic cod is said to have a peculiar chink at back of
head. Though generally a deej) swimmer, rock cod is known to
have been caught with fly when fishing for saithe. The cod is
among the most ])rolific of fish, 9,384,000 eggs having been counted
in one female fish. The milt of the cod is called '•' hum " in
Angus.
CRAB. — Creuben (Ii*.), crubag, cruban ; Mioliognach or
iongach or spagach ; Partan, parrstan, portan, portan-tuathal or
tuaitheal ; Ruadhag, ruathag, ruthag ; Sine-bhog (shell-less) ;
Tarpan, torpan.
Ancar, anker (hermit), armett, armyte ; Bash (soft), bauldster
(fem.), bean (fem.), blackclaw, buckie-ingram, bon (fern.), butcher ;
Canker, carl (male), cleanser, clepaspur (hermit), conker, corwich,
counterfeit (hermit), crabalorgin (thornback), craner (dog),
creuben, cruden ; Deep sea, dog crowler ; Fiddler ; Gaberick,
gaverick (red spider), grample, grit (Line); Haefern (A. S.),
hair}^ bummle, harper, havel, haver, havilei", havill (small), heaver
(Kent), hog; Junker; Kanker (Cornw.), keavie, kirssan, kittywitch
(small), krank (Welsh) ; Lobster toad, lupik; Mare crab (harbour) ;
Ochidore ; Partan, peelan, peeler (soft), poo, pow, pullach,
puUawawa, pullen (small baiting — North), punger (small — Kent) ;
Ringer; Saftick, saan' or sand louper or lowper, scrawl (young —
Line), shear-crab keavie or pillans, sodger, sogei", souldier (hermit —
L of Wight), spider, synabhug, synavug (Ir.); Tammie-harper.
Sine bhog (soft teat) is the name for the crab in a soft state ;
the Irish form is synabhug. The green crab is nothing but an
ordinary crab in this state, i.e., while casting its shell, and called
peeler or peelan. This crab is good for bait, but its veal name,
" green crab," must not be pronounced while baiting with it. In one
place, if it had to be named, it was called "sniffltie fit." The
Scottish (Banffshire) term for the abdomen of a crab is ajnxran or
aprin, the apron. The north side of Lochmaddy is called Loch
Partan ; some rocks there are famous for crabs. Crabs vary in
size throughout the British Isles, the record one, caught lately,
being upwards of two feet broad. I n India they measure sometimes