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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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Yaws
·noun A disease, occurring in the Antilles and in Africa, characterized by yellowish or reddish tumo...
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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.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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crab
n.
Of the various Australian species ofthis marine crustacean, Scylla serrata alone is largeenough ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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crab
A wooden pillar, the lower end of which being let down through a ship's decks, rests upon a socket l...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Crab tree
·- ·see under <<Crab>>.
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Glass-crab
·noun The larval state (Phyllosoma) of the genus Palinurus and allied genera. It is remarkable for i...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Crab Court
See Clothier Street.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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crab lanthorn
A peevish fellow.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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crab louse
A species of louse peculiar to the human body; the male is denominated a cock, the female a hen.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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crab shells
Shoes. IRISH.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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squeeze crab
A sour-looking, shrivelled, diminutive fellow.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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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
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crab-tree
n. i.q. bitter-bark (q.v.).
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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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
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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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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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