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noun. Any of various chiefly marine decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, having a hard carapace that covers a broad flattened cephalothorax with a small abdomen tucked beneath it, and an anterior pair of legs that are large and pincerlike.

noun. Any of various similar decapod crustaceans, such as a hermit crab or a king crab.

noun. Crabmeat.

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noun. A crab louse.

noun. Infestation by crab lice.

noun. The maneuvering of an aircraft partially into a crosswind to compensate for drift.

noun. A machine for handling or hoisting heavy weights.

intransitive verb. To hunt or catch crabs.

intransitive verb. To scurry sideways in the manner of a crab.

intransitive verb. To drift diagonally or sideways, especially when under tow.

intransitive verb. To direct an aircraft into a crosswind.

intransitive verb. To direct (an aircraft) partly into a crosswind to eliminate drift.

intransitive verb. To cause to move or scurry sideways.

idiom. (catch a crab) To make a faulty stroke in rowing that causes the blade of the oar to strike the water on the recovery stroke.

noun. A crabapple tree or its fruit.

noun. A quarrelsome, ill-tempered person.

intransitive verb. To find fault; criticize someone or something.

intransitive verb. To interfere with and ruin; spoil.

intransitive verb. To find fault with; complain about.

intransitive verb. To make ill-tempered or sullen.

To fish for or catch crabs: as, to go crabbing.

Figuratively, to act like a crab in crawling backward; back out; “crawfish”: as, he tried to crab out of it.

noun. A crabbed, sour-tempered, peevish, morose person.

Sour; rough; harsh to the taste.

To irritate; fret; vex; provoke; make peevish, cross, sour, or bitter, as a person or his disposition; make crabbed.

To break or bruise.

To be peevish or cross.

In falconry, to seize each other when fighting: said of hawks.

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noun. Iu Australia, the marine crustacean, Scylla serrata; also, Telphusa transversa, a crustacean found in fresh water.

noun. plural Same as crabyaws.

noun. A cliff-crab, especially Grapsus pictus.

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noun. A popular name for all the stalk-eyed, ten-footed, and short-tailed or soft-tailed crustaceans constituting the subclass Podophthalmia, order Decapoda, and suborders Brachyura and Anomura: distinguished from lobsters, shrimps, prawns, crawfish, and other long-tailed or macrurous crustaceans, by shortness of body, the abdomen or so-called tail being reduced and folded under the thorax and constituting the apron, or otherwise modified. See cut under Brachyura.

noun. Some crustacean likened to or mistaken for a crab: as, the glass-crabs; the king-crabs. See the compounds.

noun. A crab-louse.

noun. Cancer, a constellation and sign of the zodiac. See Cancer

noun. An arch.

noun. plural The lowest cast at hazard.

noun. A name of various machines and mechanical contrivances.

noun. Among professional oarsmen, to sink the oar-blade so deeply in the water that it cannot he lifted easily, and hence tends to throw the rower out of the boat.

To ‘pull to pieces’; criticize or find fault with; hence, to hinder, spoil or defeat by adverse criticism of trivial details.

noun. A small, tart, and somewhat astringent apple, of which there are several varieties, cultivated chiefly for ornament and to be made into preserves, jelly, etc.; the crab-apple.

noun. The tree producing the fruit.

noun. A walking-stick or club made of the wood of the crab-apple; a crabstick.

intransitive verb. To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.

adjective. Sour; rough; austere.

transitive verb. To make sour or morose; to embitter.

"Speaking about the work he sees himself doing as child and youth advocate, Nieman says he sees young people suffering from what he calls the crab-pot syndrome."

black crab  chevalier crab  crab nebula  crab's claws  crab's eyes  

crab's stones  

crabber  crabbing  

channelise  channelize  churl  complain  crank  

Ab  Bab  Crabbe  Fab  Lab  

bean  beetle  chicken  fish  frog  

Chinese windlass  Dungeness crab  Japanese crab  Spanish windlass  air a grievance  

crabbed  crabbing  

crabbed  crabbing  crabs