To "turne a crab" is to roast a wild apple in the fire in order to throw it hissing hot into a bowl of nutbrown ale, into which had been put a toast with some spice and sugar.
The pears, too, are getting russet and heavy; and here and there amid the shining leaves one gleams as ruddy as the cheek of the Nutbrown Maid.
Now sith that ye have shewed to me The secret of your mind, I shall be plain to you again, Like as ye shall me find: Sith it is so that ye will go, I will not leave behind; Shall never be said the Nutbrown Maid Was to her love unkind.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nutbrown" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
