crab

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• Crab

  ·adj Sour; rough; austere. II. Crab ·vt To beat with a crabstick. III. Crab ·noun The zodiacal con...

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• crab

  To catch a crab; to fall backwards by missing one's stroke in rowing. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• crab

  A wooden pillar, the lower end of which being let down through a ship's decks, rests upon a socket l...

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• Crab tree

  ·- ·see under <<Crab>>. ...

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• Crab-yaws

  ·noun A disease in the West Indies. It is a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with very hard e...

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• Glass-crab

  ·noun The larval state (Phyllosoma) of the genus Palinurus and allied genera. It is remarkable for i...

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• Crab Court

  See Clothier Street. ...

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• crab lanthorn

  A peevish fellow. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• crab louse

  A species of louse peculiar to the human body; the male is denominated a cock, the female a hen. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• crab shells

  Shoes. IRISH. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• sea crab

  A sailor. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• squeeze crab

  A sour-looking, shrivelled, diminutive fellow. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• crab-hole

  n. a hole leading into a pit-likeburrow, made originally by a burrowing crayfish, and oftenafterwar...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• crab-tree

  n. i.q. bitter-bark (q.v.). ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• scrub-crab

  n. a Queensland fruit. The largedark purple fruit, two inches in diameter, of Sideroxylonaustrale, ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• angular crab

  An ugly long-armed crustacean the Goneplax angulata with eyes on remarkably long stalks. ...

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• carle-crab

  The male of the black-clawed crab, Cancer pagurus; also of the partan or common crab. ...

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• crab-boat

  Resembles a large jolly-boat. ...

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• crab-capstan

  See crab. ...

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• crab-windlass

  A light windlass for barges. ...

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• crab-yaws

  See yaw. ...

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• harper-crab

  See tommy harper. ...

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• hermit-crab

  A name applied to a group of crabs (family Paguridæ), of which the hinder part of the body is soft, ...

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• king-crab

  The Limulus polyphemus of the West Indies. ...

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• soldier-crab

  A name for the hermit-crab (which see). ...

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• catch a crab

  In rowing, when an oar gets so far beneath the surface of the water, that the rower cannot recover i...

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