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- English Word Crab Definition A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
- English Word Crab Definition To make sour or morose; to embitter.
- English Word Crab Definition To beat with a crabstick.
- English Word Crab Definition To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.
- English Word Crab Definition Sour; rough; austere.
- English Word Crab tree Definition See under Crab.
- English Word Crab-yaws Definition A disease in the West Indies. It is a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with very hard edges. See Yaws.
- English Word Crabbed Definition Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners.
- English Word Crabbed Definition Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; -- applied to things; as, a crabbed taste.
- English Word Crabbed Definition Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed author.
- English Word Crabbed Definition Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting.
- English Word Crabber Definition One who catches crabs.
- English Word Crabbing Definition The act or art of catching crabs.
- English Word Crabbing Definition The fighting of hawks with each other.
- English Word Crabbing Definition A process of scouring cloth between rolls in a machine.
- English Word Crabbish Definition Somewhat sour or cross.
- English Word Crabby Definition Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing.
- English Word Crabeater Definition The cobia.
- English Word Crabeater Definition An etheostomoid fish of the southern United States (Hadropterus nigrofasciatus).
- English Word Crabeater Definition A small European heron (Ardea minuta, and other allied species).
- English Word Craber Definition The water rat.
- English Word Crabfaced Definition Having a sour, disagreeable countenance.
- English Word Crabsidle Definition To move sidewise, as a crab. [Jocular].
- English Word Crabstick Definition A stick, cane, or cudgel, made of the wood of the crab tree.
- English Word Crache Definition To scratch.
- English Word Crack Definition To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.
- English Word Crack Definition To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze.
- English Word Crack Definition To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip.
- English Word Crack Definition To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke.
- English Word Crack Definition To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up.