Definition of crab

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Crab (a.) A claw for anchoring a portable machine.

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Cursed :: Cursed (a.) Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable.
Crabfaced :: Crabfaced (a.) Having a sour, disagreeable countenance..
Crabbish :: Crabbish (a.) Somewhat sour or cross.
Crabbing :: Crabbing (n.) The act or art of catching crabs.
Crustacea :: Crustacea (n. pl.) One of the classes of the arthropods, including lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered..
Nefarious :: Nefarious (adv.) Wicked in the extreme; abominable; iniquitous; atrociously villainous; execrable; detestably vile.
Carcinology :: Carcinology (n.) The department of zoology which treats of the Crustacea (lobsters, crabs, etc.); -- called also malacostracology and crustaceology..
Anomoura :: Anomoura (n. pl.) A group of decapod Crustacea, of which the hermit crab in an example..
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..
Craber :: Craber (n.) The water rat.
Accurst :: Accurst (p. p. & a.) Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; hence, bad enough to be under the curse; execrable; detestable; exceedingly hateful; -- as, an accursed deed..
Grapsoid :: Grapsoid (n.) A grapsoid crab.
Crabeater :: Crabeater (n.) The cobia.
Crabeater :: Crabeater (n.) A small European heron (Ardea minuta, and other allied species)..
Macropod :: Macropod (n.) Any one of a group of maioid crabs remarkable for the length of their legs; -- called also spider crab.
Cheliform :: Cheliform (a.) Having a movable joint or finger closing against a preceding joint or a projecting part of it, so that the whole may be used for grasping, as the claw of a crab; pincherlike..
Crab :: Crab (a.) A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc..
Claw :: Claw (n.) The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc..
Decapoda :: Decapoda (n. pl.) The order of Crustacea which includes the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, etc..
Crabbing :: Crabbing (n.) A process of scouring cloth between rolls in a machine.
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