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crab yaws en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, plural, plural-only, rare) A disease in the West Indies; a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with very hard edges.
    • The fungous excrescences on the soles of the feet; called crab yaws, often prove very obstinate , and remain a long time after the disease has totally disappeared in other parts 1803, Thomas Masterman Winterbottom, An Account of the Native Africans in the Neighbourhood of Sierra Leone: