Definition of crab

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Crab (a.) A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.

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Wilding :: Wilding (n.) A wild or uncultivated plant; especially, a wild apple tree or crab apple; also, the fruit of such a plant..
Crabeater :: Crabeater (n.) The cobia.
Curstness :: Curstness (n.) Peevishness; malignity; frowardness; crabbedness; surliness.
Megalops :: Megalops (n.) A larva, in a stage following the zoea, in the development of most crabs. In this stage the legs and abdominal appendages have appeared, the abdomen is relatively long, and the eyes are large. Also used adjectively..
Nipper :: Nipper (n.) A European crab (Polybius Henslowii).
Horseshoe :: Horseshoe (n.) The Limulus of horsehoe crab.
Crabbing :: Crabbing (n.) The act or art of catching crabs.
Frabbit :: Frabbit (a.) Crabbed; peevish.
Craber :: Craber (n.) The water rat.
Urva :: Urva (n.) The crab-eating ichneumon (Herpestes urva), native of India. The fur is black, annulated with white at the tip of each hair, and a white streak extends from the mouth to the shoulder..
Xanthose :: Xanthose (n.) An orange-yellow substance found in pigment spots of certain crabs.
Crab :: Crab (a.) A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
Crab :: Crab (a.) A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc..
Oxyrhyncha :: Oxyrhyncha (n. pl.) The maioid crabs.
Tetricity :: Tetricity (n.) Crabbedness; perverseness.
Pomaceous :: Pomaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a suborder (Pomeae) of rosaceous plants, which includes the true thorn trees, the quinces, service berries, medlars, and loquats, as well as the apples, pears, crabs, etc..
Crab :: Crab (a.) A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
Crab :: Crab (a.) A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc..
Maia :: Maia (n.) A genus of spider crabs, including the common European species (Maia squinado)..
Maxilliped :: Maxilliped (n.) One of the mouth appendages of Crustacea, situated next behind the maxillae. Crabs have three pairs, but many of the lower Crustacea have but one pair of them. Called also jawfoot, and foot jaw..
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