partan

[ pahr-tn ]

/ ˈpɑr tn /

a crab.

Origin of partan

1375–1425; late Middle English (Scots) < Scots Gaelic: crab

The male of the black-clawed crab, Cancer pagurus; also of the partan or common crab.

The Sailor's Word-Book |William Henry Smyth
Thereupon the Partan and Jamie Ladle jumped into a small boat and pulled out.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. |Various
Questioned again and again by his Mistress Partan as to what was amiss with him, he had given her odd and evasive answers.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. |Various
But the marquis found even the hen-pecked Partan a nobler and more elevating presence than any strutting platitude of Bond street.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. |Various

With these views he hired himself to the Partan, whose boat's crew was short-handed.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. |Various

partan

/ (ˈpɑːtən, Scot ˈpartən) /

a Scot word for crab 1 (def. 1), crab 1 (def. 2)

C15: of Celtic origin