Crab Meaning in Spanish
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• Crab
Definition & Meaning
- (a.) A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
- (a.) A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
- (v. i.) To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.
- (a.) A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
- (a.) A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
- (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.
- (a.) Sour; rough; austere.
- (v. t.) To beat with a crabstick.
- (a.) A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste.
- (n.) The zodiacal constellation Cancer.
- (a.) A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
- (v. t.) To make sour or morose; to embitter.
• Crab tree
Definition & Meaning
- () See under Crab.
• Crab-yaws
Definition & Meaning
- (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.
• Crabbed
Definition & Meaning
- (n.) Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; -- applied to things; as, a crabbed taste.
- (n.) Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed author.
- (n.) Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners.
- (n.) Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting.
• Crabber
Definition & Meaning
- (n.) One who catches crabs.
• Crabbing
Definition & Meaning
- (n.) The fighting of hawks with each other.
- (n.) The act or art of catching crabs.
- (n.) A process of scouring cloth between rolls in a machine.
• Crabbish
Definition & Meaning
- (a.) Somewhat sour or cross.
• Crabby
Definition & Meaning
- (a.) Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing.
• Crabeater
Definition & Meaning
- (n.) A small European heron (Ardea minuta, and other allied species).
- (n.) The cobia.
- (n.) An etheostomoid fish of the southern United States (Hadropterus nigrofasciatus).
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