Definition of crab

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Crab (a.) A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc..

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Podophthalmia :: Podophthalmia (n. pl.) The stalk-eyed Crustacea, -- an order of Crustacea having the eyes supported on movable stalks. It includes the crabs, lobsters, and prawns. Called also Podophthalmata, and Decapoda..
Curstness :: Curstness (n.) Peevishness; malignity; frowardness; crabbedness; surliness.
Crabby :: Crabby (a.) Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing..
Crabbish :: Crabbish (a.) Somewhat sour or cross.
Spakenet :: Spakenet (n.) A net for catching crabs.
Crabbing :: Crabbing (n.) A process of scouring cloth between rolls in a machine.
Thoracostraca :: Thoracostraca (a.) An extensive division of Crustacea, having a dorsal shield or carapec/ //niting all, or nearly all, of the thoracic somites to the head. It includes the crabs, lobsters, shrimps, and similar species..
Cancrine :: Cancrine (a.) Having the qualities of a crab; crablike.
Maikong :: Maikong (n.) A South American wild dog (Canis cancrivorus); the crab-eating dog.
Claw :: Claw (n.) The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc..
Crabeater :: Crabeater (n.) The cobia.
Crabbed :: Crabbed (n.) Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting..
Sawtooth :: Sawtooth (n.) An arctic seal (Lobodon carcinophaga), having the molars serrated; -- called also crab-eating seal..
Maxilliped :: Maxilliped (n.) One of the mouth appendages of Crustacea, situated next behind the maxillae. Crabs have three pairs, but many of the lower Crustacea have but one pair of them. Called also jawfoot, and foot jaw..
Cancer :: Cancer (n.) Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework..
Gastrolith :: Gastrolith (n.) See Crab's eyes, under Crab..
Cobia :: Cobia (n.) An oceanic fish of large size (Elacate canada); the crabeater; -- called also bonito, cubbyyew, coalfish, and sergeant fish..
Crab-yaws :: Crab-yaws (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..
Gnathastegite :: Gnathastegite (n.) One of a pair of broad plates, developed from the outer maxillipeds of crabs, and forming a cover for the other mouth organs..
Scrabbling :: Scrabbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scrabbl.
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