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English
Noun
crab yaws pl (plural only)
- (obsolete, rare) A disease in the West Indies; a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with very hard edges.
1803, Thomas Masterman Winterbottom, An Account of the Native Africans in the Neighbourhood of Sierra Leone: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
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