Definition of Crawfishing

1. Verb. (present participle of crawfish) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Crawfishing

1. crawfish [v] - See also: crawfish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crawfishing

craveth
craving
cravingly
cravingness
cravings
craw
craw-craw
crawdad
crawdaddies
crawdaddy
crawdads
crawfish
crawfish out
crawfished
crawfishes
crawfishing (current term)
crawfordite
crawk
crawked
crawking
crawks
crawl
crawl in
crawl space
crawl spaces
crawl with
crawlable
crawled
crawler
crawlers

Literary usage of Crawfishing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Struggle Over Ratification, 1846-1847 by Milo Milton Quaife (1918)
"crawfishing [October 27, 1846] It will be recollected by some, at least, that Marshall M. Strong made a big speech in the council chamber last winter in ..."

2. Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin by State Historical Society of Wisconsin (1918)
"crawfishing [October 27, 1846] It will be recollected by some, at least, that Marshall M. Strong made a big speech in the council chamber last winter in ..."

3. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1903)
"Sometimes this log would lodge and stay right across our nose, and back the Mississippi up before it ; we would have to do a little crawfishing, then, ..."

4. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"... Carlsruhe in 1865 ; has visited Switzerland, the Rhine, Bavaria, and the north of Europe. Works : Finnish Landscape ; crawfishing in the North ; View on ..."

5. The Advocate of Peace by American Peace Society (1902)
"Might is usually a bully where the chances are in its favor; it is quite as often a crawfishing coward where they are not. It is difficult to assign any ..."

6. The Old Order Changeth: A View of American Democracy by William Allen White (1910)
"And in 1885 we find the Court crawfishing a little from its decisions of the seventies. In the case of Stone vs. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, ..."

7. The Struggle Over Ratification, 1846-1847 by Milo Milton Quaife (1918)
"crawfishing [October 27, 1846] It will be recollected by some, at least, that Marshall M. Strong made a big speech in the council chamber last winter in ..."

8. Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin by State Historical Society of Wisconsin (1918)
"crawfishing [October 27, 1846] It will be recollected by some, at least, that Marshall M. Strong made a big speech in the council chamber last winter in ..."

9. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1903)
"Sometimes this log would lodge and stay right across our nose, and back the Mississippi up before it ; we would have to do a little crawfishing, then, ..."

10. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"... Carlsruhe in 1865 ; has visited Switzerland, the Rhine, Bavaria, and the north of Europe. Works : Finnish Landscape ; crawfishing in the North ; View on ..."

11. The Advocate of Peace by American Peace Society (1902)
"Might is usually a bully where the chances are in its favor; it is quite as often a crawfishing coward where they are not. It is difficult to assign any ..."

12. The Old Order Changeth: A View of American Democracy by William Allen White (1910)
"And in 1885 we find the Court crawfishing a little from its decisions of the seventies. In the case of Stone vs. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, ..."

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