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Meanings of
crab-apple
(crab-apples)
in English
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Usage of
crab-apples
in English
1
For treat they had wild plums and
crab-apples
and tiny wild strawberries.
2
They came back eating eels and
crab-apples
out of their hands.
3
These were divided between standard apples,
crab-apples
,
plums and plum hybrids.
4
Six beautiful little balls; as round as
crab-apples
and as safe as burrs!
5
Tart are they to the taste, like the
crab-apples
which abound in the hedges.
6
You would have counted she had lived upon
crab-apples
and vinegar for a fortnight.
7
The setting sun flamed through the
crab-apples
and burnished the fur of the tortoise-shell cat.
8
Wash, wipe and remove the blossom ends of one-half peck of perfect red Siberian
crab-apples
.
9
Muckishaws are said to be a fruit as big as
crab-apples
,
growing on large trees.
10
And yet once more the
crab-apples
were taken.
11
Of old time,
crab-apples
were usually planted in or near rickyards or elsewhere close to farmhouses.
12
Take them out, weigh them, and allow a pound of loaf-sugar to a pound of
crab-apples
.
13
Select tart, firm, red or yellow
crab-apples
,
three quarts; remove all decayed spots but leave the stems.
14
The twinkling
crab-apples
,
the glitter of brilliant willows now seemed to her trifling, scarcely worth the notice.
15
Ours are nothing but
crab-apples
in contrast.
16
I had been living on
crab-apples
and sugar the whole day, for I could get no provisions.
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crab-apples
crab-apple
Noun
Plural
Frequent collocations
siberian crab-apples
bear crab-apples
few crab-apples
get the crab-apples
live upon crab-apples
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