Crab Meaning in Spanish

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1. (a.) A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
2. (a.) A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
3. (v. i.) To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.
4. (a.) A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
5. (a.) A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
6. (n.) One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.
7. (a.) Sour; rough; austere.
8. (v. t.) To beat with a crabstick.
9. (a.) A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste.
10. (n.) The zodiacal constellation Cancer.
11. (a.) A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
12. (v. t.) To make sour or morose; to embitter.

1. () See under Crab.

1. (n.) A disease in the West Indies. It is a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with very hard edges. See Yaws.

1. (n.) Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; -- applied to things; as, a crabbed taste.
2. (n.) Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed author.
3. (n.) Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners.
4. (n.) Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting.

1. (n.) One who catches crabs.

1. (n.) The fighting of hawks with each other.
2. (n.) The act or art of catching crabs.
3. (n.) A process of scouring cloth between rolls in a machine.

1. (a.) Somewhat sour or cross.

1. (a.) Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing.

1. (n.) A small European heron (Ardea minuta, and other allied species).
2. (n.) The cobia.
3. (n.) An etheostomoid fish of the southern United States (Hadropterus nigrofasciatus).