| crab | The zodiacal constellation Cancer | en |
| crab | A crab apple; so named from its harsh taste | en |
| crab | complain; criticize; fish for crabs fiil | en |
| crab | They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace | en |
| crab | A bad-tempered person | en |
| crab | One of the brachyuran Crustacea | en |
| crab | A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick | en |
| crab | A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc | en |
| crab | To beat with a crabstick | en |
| crab | To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel | en |
| crab | To make sour or morose; to embitter | en |
| crab | A claw for anchoring a portable machine | en |
| crab | A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc | en |
| crab | A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn | en |
| crab | A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace | en |
| crab | A tree (Carapa guianensis) of South America | en |
| crab | In World War 1, to fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the machine guns on early aircraft did not allow firing through the propeller disk | en |
| crab | To fish for crabs | en |
| crab | to irritate, make surly or sour | en |
| crab | To back out of something | en |
| crab | To navigate (an aircraft, e.g., a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course | en |
| crab | to be ill-tempered | en |
| crab | To complain | en |
| crab | Of an aircraft, such as a glider, to move sideways | en |
| crab | A playing card with the rank of three | en |
| crab | An infestation of pubic lice | en |
| crab | The crab apple or wild apple | en |
| crab | The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use | en |
| crab | to cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick | en |
| crab | Sour; rough; austere | en |
| crab | The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body | en |
| crab | scurry sideways like a crab | en |
| crab | direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind | en |
| crab | fish for crab | en |
| crab | complain; "What was he hollering about?" | en |
| crab | a disaster in which the rower fails to extract the oar from the water at the finish, causing the handle to smash him/her in the body or pull him/her overboard | en |
| crab | (I) When a rower gets their oar "caught" in the water and is unable to extract it at the end of the stroke This can sometimes lead to completely losing control of the oar handle, and it being forced past them ("over-head" crab) | en |
| crab | infests the pubic region of the human body | en |
| crab | the edible flesh of any of various crabs | en |
| crab | A crab is a sea creature with a flat round body covered by a shell, and five pairs of legs with large claws on the front pair. Crabs usually move sideways. Crab is the flesh of this creature eaten as food. Any of 4,500 species of short-tailed decapod, found in all oceans, in freshwater, and on land. Its carapace (upper body shield) is usually broad, and its first pair of legs is modified into pincers. Most crabs live in the sea and breathe through gills, which in land crabs are modified to serve as lungs. They walk or crawl, generally with a sideways gait; some are good swimmers. Crabs are omnivorous scavengers, but many are predatory and some are herbivorous. Two of the largest known crustaceans are the giant crab of Japan (13 ft, or 4 m, from claw tip to claw tip), a spider crab; and the Tasmanian crab (up to 18 in., or 46 cm, long, and weighing more than 20 lbs, or 9 kg). Other species are less than an inch long. Well-known crabs include the hermit crab, edible crab (Britain and Europe), blue crab, Dungeness crab, fiddler crab, and king crab. blue crab Crab Nebula Dungeness crab fiddler crab hermit crab horseshoe crab king crab Japanese crab Alaskan king crab spider crab | en |
| crab | any of a number of crustaceans having five pairs of walking legs; grouch, bad-tempered person isim | en |
| crab | decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers | en |
| crab | a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply; "he caught a crab and lost the race" | en |
| crab | the fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22 | en |
| crab | (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer | en |
| crab | A problem encountered by a rower when his or her oar gets `stuck' in the water, usually right after the catch or just before the release, and is caused by improper squaring or feathering The momentum of the shell can overcome the rower's control of the oar In more extreme cases the rower can actually be ejected from the shell by the oar | en |
| crab | a quarrelsome grouch | en |
| crab | a creature that lives in water and has a hard shell, eight legs, and two claws or pinchers | en |
| crab | Movement of an AGV in the lateral (sideways) direction, from 0º -90º | en |
| crab | n kepiting | en |
| crab | a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply; "he caught a crab and lost the race" decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers the edible flesh of any of various crabs a quarrelsome grouch fish for crab scurry sideways like a crab direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind | en |
| crab | The oar blade gets twisted at an angle and gets caught; this is a stroke that goes bad and when really bad can catapult the rower right out of the boat | en |
| crab | decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers the edible flesh of any of various crabs a quarrelsome grouch fish for crab scurry sideways like a crab direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind | en |
| crab | (Kani) | en |
| crab | Occurs when the rower fails to get the oar out of the water at the end of the stroke This can stop the boat | en |
| crab | The squadron Ops Officer | en |
| crab | Undesirable loss of control or oar while rowing Frequently, a situation in which it is impossible to remove the blade of the oar from the water In severe cases, may result in ejection from the shell | en |
| crab | The tendency of a high performance single engine boat to track to one side The cause is surfacing of the propeller causing a paddle wheel effect Can be noticed on dual engine boats that do not have counter rotating gearcases | en |
| crab | A crustacean with a rounded thorax, a short abdomen tucked under its body, and, in most species, large front claws | en |
| crab | County Road Administration Board (a state agency) | en |
| crab | Ten footed crustacean with the first pair of legs modified into pincers | en |
| crabbed | Bad-tempered or cantankerous | en |
| crabbed | Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; applied to feelings, disposition, or manners | en |
| crabbed | Crowded together and difficult to read | en |
| crabbed | past of crab | en |
| crabbed | Cramped, bent | en |
| crabbed | Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; applied to things; as, a crabbed taste | en |
| crabbed | irritable, grouchy; hard to understand; illegible sıfat | en |
| crabbed | Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed author | en |
| crabbed | writing which is crabbed is small, untidy, and difficult to read (CRAB; later influenced by crab apple) | en |
| crabbed | perversely irritable | en |
| crabbed | Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting | en |
| crabbing | The act or art of catching crabs | en |
| crabbing | present participle of crab | en |
| crabbing | The fighting of hawks with each other | en |
| crabbing | A canopy is crabbing when it is flown at an angle sideways to the ambient wind, resulting in a path across the ground that is sideways as well as forwards | en |
| crabbing | Process used after excess moisture is taken from cloth by the hydro-extractor or whizzer After hydro-extraction, the cloth is stretched to its full width for further treatment, and crabbing performs the function of "setting cloth " Crabbing also "loosens" the goods The material is run over a cylinder roller to prevent wrinkles The cylinders are immersed in hot water, and the cloth rotates for about fifteen minutes The cloth, after an hour or so, is returned to the setting bath under a boiling pressure This gives the required setting Sometimes , hot and cold baths are alternated in the process, dependent on the particular conditions | en |
| crabbing | A process of scouring cloth between rolls in a machine | en |
| crablike | Walking or moving sideways | en |
| crablike | Having some characteristics of a crab | en |
| crabs | third-person singular of crab | en |
| crabs | pubic lice | en |
| crabs | infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice | en |
| crabs | infestation of crab lice (Informal) isim | en |
| crabs | plural of crab | en |