† Cropshin. World English Historical Dictionary

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Obs. Another form of copshen, CORPION, a herring of inferior quality.

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1599.  Nashe, Lenten Stuffe, 63. It was but a cropshin, (one of the refuse sort of Herrings,) and this Herring or this Cropshin was sensed … in the smoake.

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1601.  B. Jonson, Poetaster, I. ii. Th’ art in the right, my venerable Cropshin.

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