crab yaws

English

Noun

crab yaws pl (plural only)

1. (obsolete, rare) A disease in the West Indies; a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with very hard edges.
   • 1803, Thomas Masterman Winterbottom, An Account of the Native Africans in the Neighbourhood of Sierra Leone:

     The fungous excrescences on the soles of the feet; called crab yaws, often prove very obstinate , and remain a long time after the disease has totally disappeared in other parts

References

• “yaws”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.