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单词 crab-stick
释义 ˈcrab-stick
[f. crab n.2]
A stick or cudgel of the wood of the crab-tree.
1703Steele Tend. Husb. i. i, Do you see this Crab-stick, you Dog?1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 26 June, A crab-stick, which was all the weapon he had, brought the fellow to the ground with the first blow.1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. iii. iii. vi, Brave young Egalité reaches Switzerland..with a strong crabstick in his hand.
b. Application of this in chastisement.
1830James Darnley v. 25 My own quantity of crabstick.
c. fig. A bad-tempered, crabbed person.
1841Lever C. O'Malley xxxv. 193 Our Colonel! the most cross-grained old crabstick.1877E. Peacock N.W. Linc. Gloss., Crab-stick, a bad-tempered child.
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