An archaic or dialectal term for a crab, particularly in Scottish English.
Scots English variant or diminutive of 'crab,' possibly with a sound change or dialect-specific pronunciation. Old Scots preserved Norse-influenced vocabulary.
Scots has more surviving medieval words than English does—'crabut' shows how isolated populations kept older language features that were lost in more heavily trafficked English regions.
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