[Cf. SOLDIER sb. 3 b.] The hermit-crab.

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1668.  Charleton, Onomast., 177. Cancellus,… the little Souldier-Crab.

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1681.  Grew, Musæum, I. V. iv. 121. The NAKED-SHRIMP, commonly called The Souldier-Crab.

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1735.  Phil. Trans., XXXIX. 115. Others call them Soldier-Crabs, resembling them to Soldiers in Centinels Boxes.

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1774.  Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1790), VI. 370. The animal I mean is the Soldier Crab, which has some similitude to the lobster, if divested of its shell.

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1819.  G. Samouelle, Entomol. Compend., 92. Termed indiscriminately Soldier-crabs and Hermit-crabs.

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1882.  Cassell’s Nat. Hist., VI. 204. The friendship … between Soldier Crabs and Sea Anemones is very remarkable.

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