prawn
/pɹɔn/ verb C2- To fish for prawns.
He/she/it prawns · Past prawned · Past participle prawned · -ing form prawning
Verb forms
- Base form
- prawn
- He/she/it
- prawns
- Past
- prawned
- Past participle
- prawned
- -ing form
- prawning
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Then they began to pass around the dusky, piquant, Arlesian sausages, and lobsters in their dazzling red cuirasses, prawns of large size and brilliant color, the echinus with its prickly outside and dainty morsel within, the clovis, esteemed by the epicures of the South as more than rivalling the exquisite flavor of the oyster, North.
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