Usage examples (8)

• Presently a boat, that was backed like a partan-crab, came gingerly alongside, and the skipper of it hailed our master in the Dutch.
• Si manush dikela pano panna, te partan te diklo apre o pani te lela lis, adovo sikela astis lel a pireni, o yuzhior te o kushtidir o partan se, o kushtidir i rakli.
• ` ` and here's the fourth man coming clinking in at the yett e'en now from the stable, for he's shelled like a partan, wi 'airn on back and breast, haunch and shanks.
• ‘Wha called ye partan-face, my bonny man?’