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n. (alternative spelling of crabapple English)
Usage examples of "crab-apple".
The ground there was covered with a mist of bluebells, and nearly a score of crab-apple trees were in full bloom.
He ate roast beef and brown gravy, and mashed potatoes and creamed carrots and boiled turnips, and countless slices of buttered bread with crab-apple jelly.
His mouth, wide as a cup, held the coins needed to pay for a delivery or some other small service, but could just as well have held buttons, pins or crab-apple jelly.
Kemp stared at a flowering crab-apple tree that clung to the rocks above him, and even as he watched a slight breeze shook the tree and a shower of petals cascaded down toward him.
They halted beside a window to look out at the dormant Spring Garden with its arches of lichened crab-apples most ancient.
She cast a disparaging glance at the tent caterpillars in the Newsomes' crab-apple tree and clucked her tongue at the rusted antenna that halfheartedly clung to the Newsomes' chimney.
The players could not drink water during it, only a beverage concocted from wild crab-apples, green grapes, and similarly sour ingredients.