crusties

Updated: May 18, 2025

"We'll turn the clams out of the basket, and fill that; but we mustn't put any crabs in the fish-car. We'll stow 'em all forward." The basket held more than half a bushel, but there was still a "heap" of what Ford Foster called "the crusties" to pen up in the bow of the boat.

William Osborn Stoddard - Dab Kinzer: A Story of a Growing Boy