Definitions for Partan

Partan par·tan

Spelling: [pahr-tn]
IPA: /ˈpɑr tn/

Partan is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 89 anagrams from letters in Partan (aanprt).

Definitions for Partan

noun

  1. a crab.

Origin of Partan

1375-1425; late Middle English (Scots) Scots Gaelic: crab

Examples for Partan

The male of the black-clawed crab, Cancer pagurus; also of the partan or common crab.

With these views he hired himself to the partan, whose boat's crew was short-handed.

Thereupon the partan and Jamie Ladle jumped into a small boat and pulled out.

But the marquis found even the hen-pecked partan a nobler and more elevating presence than any strutting platitude of Bond street.

Questioned again and again by his Mistress partan as to what was amiss with him, he had given her odd and evasive answers.

Word Value for Partan
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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