^50 COD-CUAB 



COD. — Bod.uh, bodach-ruadh ; Cilean, c\]\^; Feilteag; Glas- 

 iasg; Trosg. 



Bil, blen, brazier (Ir.), brodie (fry) ; Chelynge, codlin, codling ; 

 Doondie (lean), dorse (Baltic), droud, duncan ; Greenfish ; 

 Habberdyn or habberdine-fish (salted), bettle codiin ; Kabbelow, 

 keelin, keeling, keiling, keling, killin (large), kleg ; Peerie codiin, 

 pootie, pooty, poullach (balf-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 codiin (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 deep swimmer, rock cod is known to 

 have been caught with fly when fishing for saithe. The cod is 

 among the most prolific 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 (Ir.), crubag, cruban ; Mioliognach or 

 iongach or spagach ; Partan, parrstan, portan, portan-tuathal or 

 tuaitheal ; Ruadhag, ruathag, ruthag ; Sine-bhog (shell-less) ; 

 Tarpan, tor pan. 



Ancar, anker (hermit), armett, armyte ; Bash (soft), bauldster 

 (fem.), bean (fem.), blackclaw, buckie-ingram, bon (fem.), 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.), 

 hairy bummle, harper, havel, haver, haviler, 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, 

 pullawawa, jmllen (small baiting — North), punger (small — Kent) ; 

 Ringer ; Saftick, saan' or sand louper or lowper, scrawl (young — 

 Line), shear-crab keavie or pillans, sodger, soger, souldier (hermit — 

 I. 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 real 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 aparan 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 



