单词 | crab |
释义 | crabn.1 1. The common name for decapod crustaceous animals of the tribe Brachyura; applied especially to the edible species found on or near the sea coast in most regions of the world. Also with qualifications applied to other Crustacea and Arachnida which more or less resemble these.The common edible crab of Britain and Europe is Cancer pagurus; the small green crab, or shore crab is Carcinus Mænas; blue crab: see the first element. Other genera of Brachyura are known as box-crab, calling-crab, fiddler-crab, lady-crab, land-crab (land-crab n.), pea-crab, porcelain-crab, rock-crab, sand-crab, spider-crab (spider-crab n.), stone-crab, swimming-crab, etc. black crab, a land-crab of the Antilles, Gecarcinus ruricola, so called from the marking of its carapace. The hermit-crab, palm-crab, soldier-crab (soldier-crab n.), tree-crab, belong to the tribe Anomoura. The horseshoe-crab, Molucca-crab, or king-crab (king crab n.) is classed among the Arachnida. The glass-crab is a young transparent crustacean of the families Palinuridæ and Scyllaridæ. Crabs can move in any direction, and frequently walk sideways or backwards, to which characteristic frequent reference is made in language: cf. crab-like adj. and adv., crab-sidle v., also crabbed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > [noun] > member of crabc1000 crab-fisha1400 crayfish1509 insect1601 many-foot1601 insectile1615 condylope1835 condylopod1855 arthropod1861 the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > crab crabc1000 partan1428 punger1586 red crab1825 fiddle-fish1867 partan-crab1893 muddy1953 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Brachyura (crab) crabc1000 crab-fisha1400 cancer?a1425 partan1428 crayfish1509 canker1562 rock crab1736 fiery-tangs1813 cancroid1852 brachyuran1877 partan-crab1893 c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 94 Hwæt fehst ðu on sæ?..ostran and crabban. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 51 Crabbe is an manere of fissce in þere sea. c1300 K. Alis. 4943 After crabben and airen hy skippen and lepeth. c1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 600 Breke þe clawes of þe crabbe, þe smalle & þe grete. 1483 Cath. Angl. 79 A Crab, piscis est. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. lxxxiiii One crab blamys another for hir backwarde pace And yet the blamer sothly can none other do. 1579 T. Stevens Let. 10 Nov. in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) i. 162 We sawe crabs swimming on the water that were red as though they had been sodden. 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 206 Your selfe shalbe olde as I am, If like a Crabbe, you could goe backeward. 1674 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 105 Spanish Crab..Cancer maias. Besides all these we observed two other sorts of small Crabs. 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. iii. 423 Cancer Ruricolus... The Black or Mountain-Crab. These creatures are very numerous in some parts of Jamaica. 1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 318 They run swiftly, and frequently retrograde or move sideways like Crabs. 1859 C. Kingsley Glaucus (ed. 4) 77 The soldier crab is the most hasty and blundering of marine animals. 1880 S. Haughton Six Lect. Physical Geogr. vi. 262 The King Crabs are a very peculiar family of Crustaceans. 1885 A. Brassey In Trades 215 Black crabs abound in the Palisades and are very fierce. 2. Astronomy. a. A zodiacal constellation, lying between Gemini and Leo. Also the fourth of the twelve divisions of the Zodiac, which originally coincided with the constellation; = cancer n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > zodiacal constellation > [noun] > Cancer crabc1000 cancerc1392 the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > particular signs > [noun] > Cancer cankerOE crabc1000 cancerc1392 tropicc1400 c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 244 An þæra tacna ys gehaten aries þæt is ramm..Feorða cancer þæt is crabba. 1413 J. Lydgate Pilgr. of Sowle (1483) v. xiii. 104 The sonne entred the signe of Cancer which is cleped the Crabbe. 1517 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (new ed.) i. i When Phebus entred was in Geminy..And horned Dyane then but one degre In the Crabbe had entred. 1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. Cijv Mars loaths the crab, he's in the lions den. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 675 Up to the Tropic Crab . View more context for this quotation 1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia II. xl. 106 I have restrained the rage of the dog-star, and mitigated the fervours of the crab. 1866 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin Heavens ii. i. xi. 372 The next group is situated in the Crab, and is known by the name of Præsepe. b. Name of a nebula or star-cluster in Taurus. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > nebula > [noun] > planetary nebula dumb-bell nebula184. crab1868 planetary1903 reflection nebula1936 1868 J. N. Lockyer Elem. Lessons Astron. 30 The Dumb-Bell cluster in Vulpecula and the Crab cluster in Taurus..have been resolved into stars. 1890 C. A. Young Uranogr. §23 The so-called ‘Crab Nebula’. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [noun] > tumour > malignant tumours cancer1527 carcinoma1583 crab1614 scirrhus1759 sarcoma1804 malignant melanoma1838 melanocarcinoma1857 adenosarcoma1871 adenocarcinoma1872 angiosarcoma1873 lymphosarcoma1874 mycosis fungoides1874 melanosarcoma1875 osteosarcoma1876 chondrosarcoma1883 psammosarcoma1886 trophoblast1889 liposarcoma1893 multiple myeloma1897 sarcoid1899 leiomyosarcoma1914 spongioblastoma1918 osteogenic sarcoma1923 sympathicoblastoma1927 reticulosarcoma1928 carcinoma in situ1932 malignancy1934 teratocarcinoma1946 sympathoblastoma1960 sympathogonioma1966 sympathicogonioma1974 1614 W. B. in tr. Philosophers Banquet (ed. 2) Pref. 1 The Crabbe, the Gangrene, or the Stone. 4. Short for crab-louse n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > group Anoplura > order Siphunculata > member of genus Pediculus (louse) > pediculus pubis (crab-louse) partnit1530 crab-louse1547 morpion1612 crab1840 1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 488 The..crabs or crab-lice, form Dr. Leach's genus Phtheirius. a1967 J. R. Ackerley My Father & Myself (1968) xii. 139 I kept a stock of Blue Ointment handy for the elimination of crabs. 1970 Observer 12 Apr. (Colour Suppl.) 43 Green wings means someone's got gonorrhoea, and yellow wings for something else, like crabs. 5. Angling. The larva of the Stone-fly. ΚΠ 1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling vii. 232 The crab or creeper is the larva of the stone fly. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [noun] > other types of arch bowOE craba1387 cove1511 triumphal arch (arc)a1566 straight arch1663 pointed arch1688 rough arch1693 jack-arch1700 oxi1700 raking arch1711 flat arch1715 scheme-arch1725 counter-arch1726 ox-eye arch1736 surbased dome1763 ogee1800 rising arch1809 sub-arch1811 deaf arch1815 four-centred arch1815 mixed arch1815 Tudor arch1815 camber1823 lancet arch1823 invert1827 platband1828 pier arch1835 ogive1841 scoinson arch1842 segment1845 skew arch1845 drop-arch1848 equilateral arch1848 lancet1848 rear arch1848 straining-arch1848 tierceron1851 shouldered arch1853 archlet1862 segment-arch1887 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 221 Þis work is isett upon sixe crabbes [L. super sex cancros] of hard marbilston. 7. A machine or apparatus for hoisting or hauling heavy weights: the name being originally applied to a machine with claws, and transferred to others of like use. Thesaurus » a. A kind of small capstan (see quot. 1764); a portable capstan. Thesaurus » c. A portable machine for raising weights, etc., consisting of a frame with a horizontal barrel on which a chain or rope is wound by means of handles and gearing; used in connection with pulleys, a gin, etc.: a portable winch. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > others polancre1356 spindle1398 wrest1584 handscrew?1660 sea-crab1689 lewis1743 crab1753 wheel and axle (also axis)1773 tippler1831 fall1834 outrigger hoist1835 lewisson1842 power hoist1869 tipper1870 lifting screw1885 powerlifter1909 bucket chain1911 bracket-crab- 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. i. 2 A crab..is an engine of wood of three clawes, placed on the ground in the nature of a Capsterne, for the lanching of ships. 1631 E. Pellham Gods Power 16 A Halser thereupon we got, which fastning unto our Shallops, wee, with a Crabbe or Capstang, by maine force of hand heaved them out of the water upon the shoare. 1739 C. Labelye Short Acct. Piers Westm. Bridge 36 The Masons placed their Crab or Engine, with which they hoisted their Stone. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Crab or Gin..an engine used for mounting guns on their carriages. It is made of three pieces of oak, ash, or other strong wood, of about 14 feet long, two of which are joined by transomes; so that they are wide asunder at bottom, and join at top, on a strong piece of wood..The third piece of the crab is round; one end of it goes into the head, and the other stands on the ground; so that all three make a triangle called the pye. 1764 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. I Crab..This machine differs from a capstern in having no drum-head, and in having the bars to go entirely through it, and reach from one side of the deck to the other. 1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 220 Hauled the vessel upon the dry land, by means of a crab, or small capstan. 1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 17 Crab, a species of capstan, worked usually by horses, for the purpose of raising or lowering heavy weights, such as pumps, spears, &c., in a shaft. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxix. 402 Brooks has rigged a crab or capstan on the floe. 1862 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. 221 On the truck were placed two powerful double-purchase crabs or windlasses. d. The lifting-gear of a crane, travelling on rails and moving the load. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > crane > parts of crane-line1466 ram's head1611 crane-wheel1669 ram-head1686 gibbet1730 calliper1765 jib1765 outrigger1835 clutch1874 crab1874 gabbard1952 spreader1957 lifting beam1963 1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 644/1 One form of traversing-crane consists of a crab upon a carriage traveling upon rails on the beams overhead in a foundry. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 10 June 10/1 The total weight of the crane..is 474 ¼ tons. The crab contains the whole of the mechanism for lifting and traversing, the speed of the traverse being about 26 ft. per minute. 1935 Chambers's Encycl. III. 540/2 The overhead traveller in a workshop or factory is a non-revolving crane; its essential parts are the main cross girders, the crab which moves to and fro along the cross girders on rails supported by them... The crab can..lift and shift the load from one part to any other part of the shop. 8. ‘An iron trivet to set over a fire, Cheshire’ (Halliwell).A cross ill-conditioned person: see crab n.2 6. 9. plural. slang. The lowest throw at hazard, two aces. to come off, turn out crabs: to turn out a failure or disappointment. [This may belong to crab n.2 ] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > hazard > type of throw sevenc1405 nicka1635 seven and eleven1684 crabs1768 1768 Earl of Carlisle Let. 9 Jan. in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1843) II. 238 (Farmer) If you..will play, the best thing I can wish you is, that you may win and never throw crabs. 1777 Gamblers 7 Then Hazard rose, and Crabs and Doctors sprung. 1801 Sporting Mag. 17 7 Dreamt that I had thrown crabs all night, and could not nick seven for the life of me. 1861 G. J. Whyte-Melville Tilbury Nogo 51 My next neighbour..called for fresh dice, and selected two of them with the utmost care only to throw ‘crabs’. 1874 G. A. Lawrence Hagarene iii (Farmer) My annuity drops with me; and if this throw comes off crabs, there won't be enough to bury me, unless I die a defaulter. 10. Rowing. to catch (rarely cut) a crab: to make a faulty stroke in rowing whereby the oar becomes jammed under water. The resistance of the water against the blade drives the handle against the rower's body with sufficient force (if the boat be in rapid motion) to throw him back out of his seat, and to endanger the capsizing of the boat. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > propelling boat by oars, paddle, or pole > [verb (intransitive)] > row > make stroke with oar > make faulty stroke to catch (rarely cut) a crab1785 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue at Crab To catch a crab, to fall backwards by missing one's stroke in rowing. 1804 Sporting Mag. 23 262 Catching crabs, that is, missing the hold they intend to take of the water with their oar. 1806 C. Wilson Specif. Patent 2964 4 It will clear itself of the water, so as the most inexperienced man can never what is technically called catch a crab, or impede the boat's motion by a resistance against the water in rowing. 1860 G. S. Nares Naval Cadet's Guide 98 When laying on your oars under sail, what should be done with them? Always fling them out of the rowlocks and let them rest abaft in the gunwale. If they were left in the rowlocks and the loom of the oar were not kept..down, it would ‘catch a crab’. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. i. 17 I have been down the river..with some other freshmen..though we bungle and cut crabs desperately at present. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Catch a crab, in rowing, when an oar gets so far beneath the surface of the water, that the rower cannot recover it in time to prevent his being knocked backwards. 1880 Times 27 Sept. 11/3 A boat upset.. because one of the rowers caught a ‘crab’. 11. [After German krebs crab, unsold copy of a book.] A book returned unsold by a bookseller to the publisher. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > books as sold > [noun] > worst-seller or slow-seller remainder1757 rum1760 remainder book1858 plug1890 crab1896 worst-seller1903 1896 Bookseller 6 Mar. 278/1 The great bulk of the bookselling business [in Germany] with the publishers, is done by the ‘on sale’ system... These methods seem to work well in Germany, and the number of ‘crabs’, or books returned at the end of the year, is not often very great. 1960 G. A. Glaister Gloss. Bk. 90/1 Crabs, a colloquialism for copies of a book returned by the bookseller to the publisher. 12. Nautical slang. A midshipman, esp. a junior midshipman or naval cadet. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > leader or commander > [noun] > naval officer > midshipman > junior crab1916 wart1916 wonk1929 1916 Chambers's Jrnl. July 435/1 The sub, assisted by the senior ‘snotties’, had drilled the Crabs into a high state of discipline and efficiency. 1916 ‘Taffrail’ Carry On! 43 To the senior Sub-Lieutenant..the newly joined Midshipmen are ‘crabs’ or ‘warts’, mere excrescences on the face of the earth. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. (a) crab-computing adj. ΚΠ 1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 487 E'en Leeuwenhoek himself would stand aghast..And own his crab-computing powers o'ercome. crab-favoured adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [adjective] flatc1400 hardc1400 low-cheeredc1400 large?a1425 ruscledc1440 well-visagedc1440 platter-faced1533 well-faced1534 full-faced1543 fair-faced1553 bright-faceda1560 crab-faced1563 crab-snouted1563 crab-tree-faced1563 long-visaged1584 owlya1586 wainscot-faced1588 flaberkin1592 rough-hewn1593 angel-faced1594 round-faced1594 crab-favoured1596 rugged1596 weasel-faced1596 rough-faced1598 half-faced1600 chitty1601 lenten-faced1604 broad-faced1607 dog-faced1607 weaselled-faced1607 wry-faced1607 maid-faced1610 warp-faced1611 ill-faceda1616 lean-faceda1616 old-faceda1616 moon-faced1619 monkey-faced1620 chitty-face1622 chitty-faceda1627 lean-chapt1629 antic-faced1635 bloat-faced1638 bacon-facea1640 blue-faced1640 hatchet-faced1648 grave1650 lean-jawed1679 smock-faced1684 lean-visaged1686 flaber1687 baby-faced1692 splatter-faced1707 chubby1722 puggy1722 block-faced1751 haggard-looking1756 long-faced1762 haggardly1763 fresh-faced1766 dough-faced1773 pudding-faced1777 baby-featured1780 fat-faced1782 haggard1787 weazen-face1794 keen1798 ferret-like1801 lean-cheeked1812 mulberry-faced1812 open-faced1813 open-countenanced1819 chiselled1821 hatchety1821 misfeatured1822 terse1824 weazen-faced1824 mahogany-faced1825 clock-faced1827 sharp1832 sensual1833 beef-faced1838 weaselly1838 ferret-faced1840 sensuous1843 rat-faced1844 recedent1849 neat-faced1850 cherubimical1854 pinch-faced1859 cherubic1860 frownya1861 receding1866 weak1882 misfeaturing1885 platopic1885 platyopic1885 pro-opic1885 wind-splitting1890 falcon-face1891 blunt-featured1916 bun-faced1927 fish-faced1963 1596 J. Harington Anat. Metamorph. Aiax Pref. (1814) 9 Being invited by a crab-favoured host to a neat house. (b) crab-fishing n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing for type of fish > [noun] > for crabs crabbing1657 crab-fishing1888 crab-potting1891 1888 Times 3 Jan. 10/2 Lobster and crab fishing. crab-gauge n. ΚΠ 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. p. lxxxiii Patented aquaria..and crab and lobster gauges. 1970 C. White How to catch Crabs (1998) 49 A convenient method of checking your catch is to cut out a crab gauge from a piece of plywood with the inside measurement just at the legal size. crab-racing n. ΚΠ 1882 Society 7 Oct. 5/1 One of the latest forms of amusement at French and Belgian seaside resorts is ‘crab-racing’. crab-trap n. ΚΠ 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 7 Crab and Lobster Trap. b. (In sense 7.) crab-capstan n. ΚΠ 1839 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. ix. 194 The crab capstan is used to raise and lower, with few men, considerable weights, to get guns, &c. up precipitous ascents, ramps, &c. crab-engine n. ΚΠ 1838 F. W. Simms Public Wks. Great Brit. ii. 22 An ordinary crab engine was employed in driving the piles. crab-winch n. ΚΠ 1877 Daily News 10 Oct. 6/2 The upper bolts of chain sheaves, crab winch, &c., had leaked a little at first. crab-windlass n. ΚΠ 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 219 Crab-windlass, a light windlass for barges. 1900 J. Slocum Sailing Alone around World viii. 108 On that little crab-windlass I worked the rest of the night. C2. crab-canon n. Music = cancrizans adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > piece in specific form > [noun] > canon > types of round1776 circular canon1869 crab-canon1908 cancrizans1926 1908 Strand Mag. Jan. 30/2 Canons, so constructed that they would read the same backwards or forwards. For this reason they were called Crab Canons. 1959 Collins Mus. Encycl. 109/2 Crab canon (canon cancrizans) or retrograde canon. The part which imitates is written backwards, beginning with the end. Crab canon by inversion: the part which imitates is written backwards and upside down. crab-claw n. a claw or clutch for grappling or fastening. ΚΠ 1694 Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) i. 107 And instead of Anchors, they have wooden Crab-claws, or Kellocks. crab-eating adj. that feeds on crabs (sometimes rendering Latin cancrivorus). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by eating habits > [adjective] > carnivorous > feeding on crabs crab-eating1812 1812 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. VIII. i. 71 Crab-eating kingfisher. 1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §309 The Crab-eating Opossum is common in Guiana and Brazil, it..prefers marshy situations, where it feeds on crabs. 1883 List Vertebrated Animals Gardens Zool. Soc. (ed. 8) 82 Procyon cancrivorus, crab-eating raccoon. 1883 List Vertebrated Animals Gardens Zool. Soc. (ed. 8) 193 Didelphys cancrivora, crab-eating opossum. 1895 tr. R. Schmidtlein Brehm's Life Animals 594/2 The Crab-eating Opossum has a wide geographical range, extending perhaps throughout all of tropical America. 1900 Daily News 28 Nov. 7/2 A crab-eating racoon from South America. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 27 Dec. 10/2 A crab-eating opossum. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 6 June 10/2 Stones are always met with in the stomachs of two species of Antarctic seals. The Crab-eating seal is one of these..swallowing them to act as grindstones, whereby the hard shells of the crabs may be properly broken up. 1932 S. Zuckerman Social Life Monkeys & Apes vi. 89 The length of the cycle in the common or crab-eating macaque is approximately the same as in other macaques. 1954 G. Durrell Three Singles to Adventure vii. 156 It was a broad, flat head with neat rounded ears and a dog-like muzzle. The creature's colouring was ash grey, but across the eyes was a wide black band... ‘A crab-eating raccoon.’ 1966 R. Morris & D. Morris Men & Apes i. 20 Crab-eating macaques in Bali are apparently treated with as much deference as the sacred monkeys of India. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [noun] muskin1530 vizard1568 monkey-face?1589 chitty-face1601 angel face1605 smock-face1605 fish-facea1625 platter face1631 ammunition face1649 horn-facea1668 baby facea1684 crab face1706 hatchet face1707 splatter-face1707 paddock-face1724 pudding face1748 dough face1755 Madonna face1790 company face1798 moon-face1822 pug-facea1845 puss1844 frog-face1872 bun-face1913 bitch face1969 1706 in H. Playford Wit & Mirth (new ed.) IV. 116 Viewing his crab face. crab-faced adj. having a crab face. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [adjective] flatc1400 hardc1400 low-cheeredc1400 large?a1425 ruscledc1440 well-visagedc1440 platter-faced1533 well-faced1534 full-faced1543 fair-faced1553 bright-faceda1560 crab-faced1563 crab-snouted1563 crab-tree-faced1563 long-visaged1584 owlya1586 wainscot-faced1588 flaberkin1592 rough-hewn1593 angel-faced1594 round-faced1594 crab-favoured1596 rugged1596 weasel-faced1596 rough-faced1598 half-faced1600 chitty1601 lenten-faced1604 broad-faced1607 dog-faced1607 weaselled-faced1607 wry-faced1607 maid-faced1610 warp-faced1611 ill-faceda1616 lean-faceda1616 old-faceda1616 moon-faced1619 monkey-faced1620 chitty-face1622 chitty-faceda1627 lean-chapt1629 antic-faced1635 bloat-faced1638 bacon-facea1640 blue-faced1640 hatchet-faced1648 grave1650 lean-jawed1679 smock-faced1684 lean-visaged1686 flaber1687 baby-faced1692 splatter-faced1707 chubby1722 puggy1722 block-faced1751 haggard-looking1756 long-faced1762 haggardly1763 fresh-faced1766 dough-faced1773 pudding-faced1777 baby-featured1780 fat-faced1782 haggard1787 weazen-face1794 keen1798 ferret-like1801 lean-cheeked1812 mulberry-faced1812 open-faced1813 open-countenanced1819 chiselled1821 hatchety1821 misfeatured1822 terse1824 weazen-faced1824 mahogany-faced1825 clock-faced1827 sharp1832 sensual1833 beef-faced1838 weaselly1838 ferret-faced1840 sensuous1843 rat-faced1844 recedent1849 neat-faced1850 cherubimical1854 pinch-faced1859 cherubic1860 frownya1861 receding1866 weak1882 misfeaturing1885 platopic1885 platyopic1885 pro-opic1885 wind-splitting1890 falcon-face1891 blunt-featured1916 bun-faced1927 fish-faced1963 1563 A. Neville in B. Googe Eglogs Epytaphes & Sonettes sig. A.iii Such crabfaced, cankerd, carlish chuffs. 1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. (1655) v. 14 An old crab-fac'd English Fryer. crab-farming n. raising crabs in enclosed shallows for the market. ΚΠ 1889 Cent. Dict. Crab-farming, a system of protecting or preserving crabs by keeping them in pens in salt-water shallows, where they are fattened for market. crab-hole n. Australian a hole burrowed by a land crab. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Brachyura (crab) > hole burrowed by crab crab-hole1848 1848 Mrs. Perry in G. Goodman Church in Victoria (1892) 72 Full of crab-holes, which are exceedingly dangerous for the horses... These holes are formed by a small land-crab, and then gradually enlarged by the water draining into them. 1891 R. Wallace Rural Econ. Austral. & N.Z. ii. 47 The surface [of the land] was closely pitted with crabhole-like water-hollows. 1903 ‘T. Collins’ Such is Life 16 Price and Cooper, being cooks had kindled an unobtrusive fire in a crab-hole, where three billies were soon boiling. 1956 S. Hope Diggers' Paradise xvii. 157 The ball may be lifted or dropped without penalty from wallaby scrapes, crab holes, ironstone outcrops and tractor marks. crab-holed adj. covered with crab-holes. ΚΠ 1908 J. Gunn We of Never-never xii. 152 One hundred and thirty miles of sun-baked, crab-holed, practically trackless plains. crab lobster n. the porcelain-crab, an anomourous crustacean. ΚΠ 1999 Indianapolis Monthly June 239/1 The Combo—a large iced platter of steamed crab lobster, four oysters and two giant shrimp. 2007 K. K. Snyder Frommer's Atlanta vi. 126 The star of the menu is the crab lobster entree, one or two Maine 1-pounders prepared six different ways. crab plover n. of the Indian Ocean, Dromas ardeola. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > member of (miscellaneous) painted snipe1811 pressiroster1842 seedsnipe1889 crab plover1893 1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. 1 109 Crab-plover, the Anglo-Indian name for a curious bird of wide range, frequenting the east coast of Africa from the Red Sea to Natal, as well as the northern..shores of the Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal,..Dromas ardeola. crab-pot n. (a) a trap for crabs, a basket or frame of wickerwork so constructed that crabs can readily enter but cannot get out again; (b) (also crab-pot valve) (in airships) a fabric valve with a sleeve which could be closed like a crab-pot. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fish-trap > [noun] > for lobsters or crabs lobster-pot1765 crab-pot1793 trap-creel1795 trunk1835 lobster-creel1853 lobster-trap1865 stick pot1887 partan cage1899 society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > balloons and airships > [noun] > valve ripping valve1900 crab-pot1918 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §264 They..disengaged the layers of cork..and cut them to pieces for their Crab-pots and Seines. 1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands ii. viii. 180 The rope made from it is especially valuable for crab pots. 1918 W. E. Dommett Dict. Aircraft 16 Crab-pot, a fabric valve used for controlling the inlet of air to the ballonets of a non-rigid airship. 1950 Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) i. 53 Crabpot valve, a special type of fabric sleeve the operation of which is controlled by a hand-line. crab-potting n. the catching of crabs in pots: cf. crab-pot n. (a), pot n.1 5b. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing for type of fish > [noun] > for crabs crabbing1657 crab-fishing1888 crab-potting1891 1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 Aug. 3/1 We may meet a fisherman returning from crab potting. 1902 Cutcliffe Hyne in Windsor Mag. July (title) The gentle art of crab-potting. crab rock n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1877 A. H. Green Geol. for Students: Physical Geol. (ed. 2) iv. §4 Crab Rock, local name of brecciated Permian rocks of Cumberland and Westmoreland. crab-roller n. Printing a short roller mounted at an angle on a larger one so as to travel back and forth, distributing the ink evenly. ΚΠ 1889 Cent. Dict. Crab-roller,..a small roller which distributes printing-ink on the ink-cylinder of the Adams printing-press: so called because its motion is sidewise and apparently diagonal. 1896 Amer. Bk.-maker Aug. 37/1 The ‘crab-roller’ is yet known to some Adams pressmen. It was an ingenious little mechanism, having a sort of sideways-backward movement. crab's claw n. (a) the claw of crabs, formerly used in medicine for the same purpose as crab's-eye n.; (b) a water-plant, Water Soldier, Stratiotes Aloides. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > biological product > [noun] > from crustaceans eye1561 crab's-eye1605 crab's claw1710 1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 30 Take Powder of Crabs-claws compound..half a scruple. 1758 R. Dossie Elaboratory laid open 163 Crabs claws are for the most part sold or used when crabs eyes are demanded or ordered. crab-shell n. the carapace of a crab; slang a shoe. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] shoec950 subpedital1526 suppeditary1596 suppeditor1687 crab-shell1807 kicks1904 1807 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life II. xviii. 185 An old crab-shell, which, in..his antiquarian fury, he shall consider as an inestimable treasure. crab-snouted adj. (see crab-faced adj.). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [adjective] flatc1400 hardc1400 low-cheeredc1400 large?a1425 ruscledc1440 well-visagedc1440 platter-faced1533 well-faced1534 full-faced1543 fair-faced1553 bright-faceda1560 crab-faced1563 crab-snouted1563 crab-tree-faced1563 long-visaged1584 owlya1586 wainscot-faced1588 flaberkin1592 rough-hewn1593 angel-faced1594 round-faced1594 crab-favoured1596 rugged1596 weasel-faced1596 rough-faced1598 half-faced1600 chitty1601 lenten-faced1604 broad-faced1607 dog-faced1607 weaselled-faced1607 wry-faced1607 maid-faced1610 warp-faced1611 ill-faceda1616 lean-faceda1616 old-faceda1616 moon-faced1619 monkey-faced1620 chitty-face1622 chitty-faceda1627 lean-chapt1629 antic-faced1635 bloat-faced1638 bacon-facea1640 blue-faced1640 hatchet-faced1648 grave1650 lean-jawed1679 smock-faced1684 lean-visaged1686 flaber1687 baby-faced1692 splatter-faced1707 chubby1722 puggy1722 block-faced1751 haggard-looking1756 long-faced1762 haggardly1763 fresh-faced1766 dough-faced1773 pudding-faced1777 baby-featured1780 fat-faced1782 haggard1787 weazen-face1794 keen1798 ferret-like1801 lean-cheeked1812 mulberry-faced1812 open-faced1813 open-countenanced1819 chiselled1821 hatchety1821 misfeatured1822 terse1824 weazen-faced1824 mahogany-faced1825 clock-faced1827 sharp1832 sensual1833 beef-faced1838 weaselly1838 ferret-faced1840 sensuous1843 rat-faced1844 recedent1849 neat-faced1850 cherubimical1854 pinch-faced1859 cherubic1860 frownya1861 receding1866 weak1882 misfeaturing1885 platopic1885 platyopic1885 pro-opic1885 wind-splitting1890 falcon-face1891 blunt-featured1916 bun-faced1927 fish-faced1963 1563 A. Neville in B. Googe Eglogs Epytaphes & Sonettes sig. A.iiv Those Crabsnowted bestes those ragyng feends of Hell. crab-spider n. the name of several species of spiders. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > suborder Labidognatha or Dipneumones > member of family Thomisidae crab-spider1861 1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. v. ii 260 The Mygales (Crab Spiders and Mason Spiders). crab-step n. a sidelong step by a capering horse. ΚΠ 1889 Cent. Dict. Crab-step, a sidelong step like that of a crab, made by a horse. crab-stone n. a calcareous concretion found in the stomach of crustaceans, previous to the casting of their shells; in crayfish it forms the crab's-eyes. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > member of > concretion in stomach eye1561 crevishe eyes1599 crab's-eye1605 crab-stone1861 1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. iii. 97 The Crabs' Stones which are most esteemed come from Astrakan. crabwise adv. (moving) sideways or backwards like a crab; also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > [adjective] sidelingc1155 sidelong1608 sideward?1617 sideway1650 sideways1684 sidelings1768 sidling1821 sidewards1827 sidewinding1867 sidestepping1902 crabwise1904 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > [adverb] sidelonga1398 sidelings?a1400 sidelingc1425 laterallyc1454 collaterally?a1475 sidewarda1513 sidewise1531 byward1556 sideways1572 sidewards1575 sidelingwise1577 crabby1582 crab-like1605 sideway1847 crabwise1904 1904 Daily Chron. 6 May 8/1 There are barges in the way, and these have to be coaxed aside before the Adler can approach crabwise to the wharf. 1926 Chambers's Jrnl. 163/1 She went crabwise about the loch. 1926 Chambers's Jrnl. 224/1 A crabwise gait. 1927 R. A. Freeman Certain Dr. Thorndyke i. iii. 42 He began to advance, crabwise, across the deck in the manner of a wrestler attacking. 1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! v. 298 The innumerable inversions, augmentations, diminutions and crabwise canons of Schönberg's later works. 1963 Times 19 Apr. 5/5 It..swerved out of control and came crabwise down the middle lane and hit my lorry. Draft additions June 2007 crab cake n. originally U.S. a patty of flaked or minced crabmeat, typically served fried. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > rissoles, balls, or croquettes > [noun] rishew1340 pomedorry1381 rafiolea1425 raynoll?c1425 pomea1450 andouillet1611 raviol1611 tamale1625 patty1660 poupiets1702 croquette1706 rissole1706 potato cake1747 Basque1769 potato ball1817 Cecils1819 polpetta1822 quenelle1827 kibbeh1829 meatball1835 kromeski1846 quenelle de volaille1846 quesadilla1848 kungu cake1865 ponhaus1869 frikkadel1870 albondigas1872 fricandel1872 Vienna steak1874 pirozhok1887 kofta1888 paupiette1889 cheeseball1895 keftedes1912 baozi1927 crab cake1929 falafel1936 klops1936 coddie1941 wonton1948 fish finger1962 1929 Denton (Maryland) Jrnl. 15 June 5/6 The menu will consist of crab cakes, ham, tomato salad, slaw, biscuits, rolls, [etc.]. 2000 A. Bourdain Kitchen Confid. (2001) 144 I worked a deserted crab house on Second Avenue, steaming blue crabs and frying crab cakes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). crabn.2 1. The common name of the wild apple, especially connoting its sour, harsh, tart, astringent quality; applied also to cultivated varieties having similar qualities, grown for preserving, making verjuice, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > apple > [noun] > crab-apple crabc1450 wilding1526 crab-apple1712 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > crab-apple wood-applec1000 wood crab14.. crabc1450 scrab1467 wilding1526 choke-apple1600 crab-apple1712 cherry-apple1858 Siberian crab1858 souring1866 c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 594/26 Malum macianum, a Crabbe. c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 715 Hoc arbitum, a crabe. a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 44 Rolle hit on balles..In gretnes of crabbes. 1477 T. Norton Ordinall of Alchimy v, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 74 As by Faces of People ye maie Deeme, When thei tast Crabs while thei be greene. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vii. ii. 18 With wild scrabbis and othir frutis large.] a1536 W. Tyndale Wks. 10 (R.) As a man would wryng veriuce out of crabbes. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear v. 15 Shees as like this, as a crab is like an apple. View more context for this quotation c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) vi. 2526 They must have veriuice that will squeese such crabbes. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 48/1 The Crab is a small round Apple, growing on Trees in Hedges by the Way sides. 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 121 I fed on scarlet hips and stony haws Or blushing crabs. 1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. i. 18 Crabs were collected in order to manufacture verjuice. 2. The wild apple tree of northern Europe, the original of the common apple ( Pyrus malus). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > apple tree > wild or crab-apple crab-treec1425 crab1626 crab-stock1640 crab-apple1771 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 99 Crabbe tre, acerbus, macianus, arbutus.] c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 646 Hec arbutus, crabtre. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §507 Blossoms of Trees..those of Apples, Crabs, Almonds, and Peaches, are Blushy and smell sweet. a1679 W. Gurnall in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1874) IV. Ps. ci. 6 You would get the best fruit trees, and not cumber your ground with crabs. 1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 6 The wild crab is the only apple indigenous to this country. 1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 358 Like the crabs which grow in hedges, they furnish the stocks of sweet..fruits. 3. With qualification applied to some cultivated varieties of the apple (tree and fruit), as Minshull crab; and to other species of the genus, as cherry crab n. Pyrus baccata, Chinese crab n. P. spectabilis, Siberian crab n. P. prunifolia, garland crab n. or American crab-apple ( Pyrus coronaria), and several other North American species. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > crab-apple wood-applec1000 wood crab14.. crabc1450 scrab1467 wilding1526 choke-apple1600 crab-apple1712 cherry-apple1858 Siberian crab1858 souring1866 1657 J. Beale in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 43 517 The croft Crab and white or red Horse-pear do excel them, and all others. 1858 R. Hogg Veg. Kingdom 308 The small Cherry Apple or Scarlet Siberian Crab..used for making quasar punch. 1881 M. E. Braddon Asphodel I. vi. 177 The snowy clusters of the American crab..and seringa, lilac, laburnum, guelder rose. 1882 Garden 28 Oct. 381/2 The Chinese Crab..[is] a tree unsurpassed in beauty by any of the class. 4. A stick or cudgel made of the wood of the crab-tree; a crab-stick. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > club or stick > [noun] sowelc893 treec893 cudgelc897 stinga900 bat?c1225 sticka1275 clubc1275 truncheon14.. bourdonc1325 bastona1400 warderera1400 plantc1400 kibble1411 playloomc1440 hurlbatc1450 ploykc1450 rung1491 libberlac1500 waster1533 batonc1550 macana1555 libbet1562 bastinado1574 crab-tree comb1593 tomahawkc1612 billeta1616 wiper1622 batoon1637 gibbeta1640 crab-bat1647 kibbo1688 Indian club1694 batterdasher1696 crab-stick1703 bloodwipea1705 bludgeon1730 kierie1731 oaken towel1739 crab1740 shillelagh1772 knobstick1783 pogamogganc1788 whirlbat1791 nulla-nulla1798 waddy1800 kevel1807 supple1815 mere1820 hurlet1825 knobkerrie1826 blackthorn1829 bastera1833 twig1842 leangle1845 alpeen1847 banger1849 billy1856 thwack-stave1857 clump1868 cosh1869 nulla1878 sap1899 waddy1899 blunt instrument1923 1740 D. Garrick Lying Valet i. ii Out bolts her husband with a fine taper crab in his hand. 5. transferred. The potato-apple. dialect. ΚΠ 1794 J. Holt Agric. Surv. Lanc. 30 Crabs, or oukles, which grow upon the stems [of potatoes]. 1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Crab, a potato-apple. 6. Applied to persons: a. as figurative of 1: A sour person. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > [noun] > ill-natured person crab1574 crab-staffa1603 hunks1602 snarler1634 cross-piecea1652 cross-patch1699 vixen1699 frump1817 catamaran1834 patch1839 crab-stick1840 hunkster1842 grump1900 wampus1912 maltalent1965 1574 J. Baret Aluearie C 1424 A rude pesant, and crabbe of the countrey. 1605 Hist. Tryall Cheualry sig. C2v And that sowre crab do but leere at thee, I shall squeeze him to vargis. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 228 Pet. Nay come Kate, come: you must not looke so sowre. Kate. It is my fashion when I see a Crab . View more context for this quotation b. In later use, often a back-formation from crabbed adj.: a crabbed, cross-grained, ill-tempered person. [This might come directly from crab n.1; in German and East Frisian krabbe crab (the animal) is applied to a cross-grained, fractious person: see crabbed adj. ] ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > offensiveness > offensive person > [noun] vermin1581 crab-staffa1603 crab1825 crab-stick1840 rotter1879 undesirable1883 greaser1900 foul ball1918 jabroni1919 cockhead1972 nutsack1984 1825 C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 179 What coming crabb over us, old fellow? Very well, I shall bolt and try Randall, and that's all about it. 1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Devereux I. i. iii. 23 I love you better than..that crab of a priest. 1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness Crab, a peevish, ill-tempered person. 1881 E. Lynn Linton My Love! I. xiii. 229 But there was not a coward nor a ‘crab’, as they called the crossgrained when speaking among themselves. Compounds C1. Of or pertaining to the crab-apple or crab-tree. crab blossom n. ΚΠ 1888 Daily News 22 May 2/2 The glorious profusion of the crab-blossoms. crab kernel n. ΚΠ 1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 76 in Sylva Crab kernels, for Stocks. crab verjuice n. ΚΠ 1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick clxxvi. 95 Bathe it in good Crab Verjuice. crab vinegar n. ΚΠ 1884 Farm & Home 25 Oct. 278/3 The old English verjuice, called in the west of England ‘crab vinegar’. C2. Resembling the crab-apple in its sour, harsh taste, or inferiority as fruit. crab lemon n. ΚΠ 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World x. 296 The Lime is a sort of bastard or Crab-limon... The Fruit is like a Lemon, but smaller. crab orange n. ΚΠ 1606 J. Marston Parasitaster iii She..lookes as sowerly, as if she had beene new squeased out of a crab orenge. crab vintage n. ΚΠ 1698 J. Dryden Ded. to Granville in G. Granville Heroick Love sig. A4v Better gleanings, their worn Soil can boast, Then the Crab-Vintage of the Neighb'ring Coast. crab wine n. ΚΠ 1620 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. V. N.T. ii. 470 That liberality hated to prouide crab-wine for his guests. C3. Also crab-apple n., crab-stick n.1, crab-stock n., crab-tree n., etc. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > club or stick > [noun] sowelc893 treec893 cudgelc897 stinga900 bat?c1225 sticka1275 clubc1275 truncheon14.. bourdonc1325 bastona1400 warderera1400 plantc1400 kibble1411 playloomc1440 hurlbatc1450 ploykc1450 rung1491 libberlac1500 waster1533 batonc1550 macana1555 libbet1562 bastinado1574 crab-tree comb1593 tomahawkc1612 billeta1616 wiper1622 batoon1637 gibbeta1640 crab-bat1647 kibbo1688 Indian club1694 batterdasher1696 crab-stick1703 bloodwipea1705 bludgeon1730 kierie1731 oaken towel1739 crab1740 shillelagh1772 knobstick1783 pogamogganc1788 whirlbat1791 nulla-nulla1798 waddy1800 kevel1807 supple1815 mere1820 hurlet1825 knobkerrie1826 blackthorn1829 bastera1833 twig1842 leangle1845 alpeen1847 banger1849 billy1856 thwack-stave1857 clump1868 cosh1869 nulla1878 sap1899 waddy1899 blunt instrument1923 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 13 I am a Crabbat against Arbitrary Government. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > wood > [adjective] > of or having knots knarryc1405 knottedc1440 crabbed?1518 knubbed1567 warried1567 warry1567 scraggy1574 crab-knob1582 knurly1602 gnarleda1616 thwarterous1625 nodous1646 snubbya1758 snarly1770 swirly1786 gnarly1846 knarred1849 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 5 An Island Theare seat, with crabknob skrude stoans hath framed an hauen. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > offensiveness > offensive person > [noun] vermin1581 crab-staffa1603 crab1825 crab-stick1840 rotter1879 undesirable1883 greaser1900 foul ball1918 jabroni1919 cockhead1972 nutsack1984 the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > [noun] > ill-natured person crab1574 crab-staffa1603 hunks1602 snarler1634 cross-piecea1652 cross-patch1699 vixen1699 frump1817 catamaran1834 patch1839 crab-stick1840 hunkster1842 grump1900 wampus1912 maltalent1965 a1603 Queen Elizabeth in C. M. Ingleby & L. T. Smith Shakespeare's Cent. Prayse (1879) 400 Persius, a Crab-staff, Bawdy Martiall, Ovid a fine Wag. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). crabn.3Thesaurus » Categories » The name of a South American tree, Carapa guianensis, used in compounds. crab-nut n. the nut or seed of this tree. Π 1883 E. F. Im Thurn Among Indians of Guiana xiv. 314 On the savannah, where crab-nuts are less easily procured. crab-oil n. (also carap oil) the oil obtained from crab-nuts, used for lighting purposes and as an anthelmintic. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > extracted or refined oil > [noun] > other plant-derived oils oil de baya1398 oil roseta1400 alkitranc1400 laurinec1400 oil of spicac1400 seed oil1400 rape oil1420 nut-oil?c1425 masticine?1440 oil de rose?1440 oil of myrtine?a1450 gingellya1544 rose oil1552 alchitrean1562 oil of spike1577 oil of ben1594 myrtle oil1601 sesamus1601 sampsuchine1616 oil of walnuts1622 rape1641 oil of rhodium1649 rapeseed oil1652 neroli1676 oil of mace1681 spirit of scurvy-grass1682 beech-oil1716 poppy oil1737 castor oil1746 oil of sassafras1753 orange-peel oil1757 wood-oil1759 bergamot1766 sunflower oil1768 Russia oil1773 oil castor1779 tung-yu1788 poppy-seed oil1799 cocoa butter1801 sassafras oil1801 phulwara1805 oil of wine1807 grass oil1827 oil of marjoram1829 cajuput oil1832 essence of mustarda1834 picamar1835 spurge oil1836 oenanthic ether1837 tea oil1837 capnomor1838 cinnamon-oil1838 oil of mustard1838 orange-flower oil1838 resinein1841 mustard oil1844 myrrhol1845 styrol1845 oenanthol1847 shea butter1847 wintergreen1847 gaultheria oil1848 ginger-grass oil.1849 nutmeg oil1849 pine oil1849 peppermint oil1850 cocoa fat1851 orange oil1853 neem oil1856 poonga oil1857 xanthoxylene1857 crab-oil1858 illupi oil1858 Shanghai oil1861 stand oil1862 mustard-seed oil1863 carap oilc1865 cocum butter or oilc1865 Kurung oil1866 muduga oil1866 pichurim oil1866 serpolet1866 sumbul oil1868 sesame oil1870 niger oil1872 summer yellow1872 olibene1873 patchouli oil1875 pilocarpene1876 styrolene1881 tung oil1881 becuiba tallow1884 soy oil1884 tea-seed oil1884 eucalyptus1885 sage oil1888 hop-oil1889 cotton-seed oil1891 lemon oil1896 palmarosa oil1897 illipe butter1904 hydnocarpus oil1905 tung1911 niger seed oil1917 sun oil1937 vanaspati1949 fennel oil- the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > remedies for parasitic infections > [noun] > vermifuge or anthelminthic > plant-derived wormseedc1503 santonica1658 worm-grass1756 filix mas1789 worm-barkc1791 cowage1801 kamala1820 wormseed oil1830 Mucuna1836 santonin1838 Corsican moss1849 kousso1851 worm-oil1855 crab-oil1858 tallicoona oil1866 kainic acid1954 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Carap Oil, Crab Oil, an oil obtained in South America from the Carapa guianensis. c1865 H. Letheby in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 95/1 A semi-solid oil, named Crab or Carapa oil. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 220 at Carapa By pressure the seeds yield a liquid oil, called Carap oil or Crab oil, suitable for burning in lamps..In this country it hardens into a solid fat. 1883 E. F. Im Thurn Among Indians of Guiana xiv. 314 Crab-oil finds a ready sale in the towns. Most of this oil is prepared from the nuts of a very common tree, the crab-wood (Carapa guianensis). crab-tree n. Π 1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 81 The Caraba, or Crab Tree..consists of numerous branches, covered with long narrow leaves, of a dark green colour. crab-wood n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > wood of fruit trees > others service tree1545 cornel-wood1600 manchineel1683 bois d'arc1805 apple1815 crab-wood1849 peach wood1850 plum1902 persimmon1989 1849 J. F. Bourne in Ecclesiologist IX. 183 I intend to use ‘crab-wood’ for the roof and fittings. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 220/2 Crab-wood..is used for making articles of furniture, for shingles, and for the masts and spars of vessels. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022). crabn.4 colloquial. The action of crabbing or finding fault; an instance of this; an adverse criticism or objection. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > [noun] > captious > instance of cavil1570 carp1618 crab1893 nitpick1968 1893 Field 11 Mar. 347/1 It will be said I am dreadfully ‘on the crab’, but I believe what I have written is only the simple truth. 1922 Autocar 10 Nov. 956 My only crab to them at present is that [etc.]. 1924 J. Buchan Three Hostages 25 The crab of the place was its neighbours. 1927 Observer 10 July 11 The only ‘crab’ we have against this is that cavalry of old effected most of their success by charging infantry. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2019). crabv.1 a. transitive. To go counter to, to cross; to put out of humour or temper; to irritate, anger, enrage, provoke. Scottish ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (transitive)] withgo743 to go again ——OE withsayc1175 again-goc1275 withsitc1300 thwarta1325 to go against ——a1382 counter1382 repugnc1384 adversea1393 craba1400 gainsaya1400 movec1400 overthwart?a1425 to put (also set) one's face againsta1425 traversea1425 contrairc1425 to take again ——c1425 contraryc1430 to take against ——a1450 opposec1485 again-seta1500 gain?a1500 oppone1500 transverse1532 to come up against1535 heave at1546 to be against1549 encounter1549 to set shoulder against1551 to fly in the face of1553 crossc1555 to cross with1590 countermand1592 forstand1599 opposit1600 thorter1608 obviate1609 disputea1616 obstrigillate1623 contradict1632 avert1635 to set one's hand against1635 top1641 militate1642 to come across ——1653 contrariate1656 to cross upon (or on)1661 shock1667 clash1685 rencounter1689 obtend1697 counteract1708 oppugnate1749 retroact?1761 controvert1782 react1795 to set against ——1859 appose- the mind > emotion > anger > [verb (transitive)] > make angry wrethec900 abelgheeOE abaeileOE teenOE i-wrathec1075 wratha1200 awratha1250 gramec1275 forthcalla1300 excitea1340 grieve1362 movea1382 achafea1400 craba1400 angerc1400 mada1425 provokec1425 forwrecchec1450 wrothc1450 arage1470 incensea1513 puff1526 angry1530 despite1530 exasperate1534 exasper1545 stunt1583 pepper1599 enfever1647 nanger1675 to put or set up the back1728 roil1742 outrage1818 to put a person's monkey up1833 to get one's back up1840 to bring one's nap up1843 rouse1843 to get a person's shirt out1844 heat1855 to steam up1860 to get one's rag out1862 steam1922 to burn up1923 to flip out1964 a1400–50 Alexander 5323 Qui colkins þou, ser conquirour & crabbis so þi saule. a1500 Liber Pluscardensis (Marchm.) (1877) I. 383 Thow makis gret falt..All thus but caus to crab thi creatoure. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Wolf & Wether l. 2580 in Poems (1981) 95 Ane full gude seruand will craib his maister anis. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 563 To contray him or crab in ony thing. 1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 6 b To put our selues in danger to crab god. 1595 A. Duncan Appendix Etymologiae: Index in Latinae Grammaticae Offendo, to stumble, to crabbe, to find by chance. a1605 Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 152 I will..swingeour, for thy sake refuse it..To crabe thee. b. absol. and intransitive. ΚΠ a1500 Ratis Raving ii. 122 Thai here glaidly, and lytill spekis, Laith for to crab and seldin wrekis. a1500 Ratis Raving iii. 175 Crab nocht lychtly for lytil thing. a1598 D. Fergusson Sc. Prov. (1641) sig. B4v He that crabbes without cause, should mease without mends. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > render ill-natured [verb (transitive)] crab1662 1662 J. Glanvill Lux Orientalis iv. 43 How age or sickness sowres, and crabbs our natures. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). crabv.2 1. Falconry. Of hawks: To scratch, claw, or fight with each other. a. transitive. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > action of hawk > [verb (transitive)] > other actions to cast the gorge1535 coast1569 to make its (also her) point1595 crab1674 1674 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation ii. 135 If you mew more than one Hawk in one Room, you must set your Stones at that distance that when they bate they may not crab one another. b. intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > action of hawk > [verb (intransitive)] > other actions tirec1220 beak1486 enseam1486 traverse1486 bind1575 crab1575 gleam1575 accost1596 canceleera1640 to wait on1773 to throw up1881 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 173 That when your hawkes bate, they maye not reache one another for crabbing. 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 114 Some Falcons..will crabbe with every Hawke, and flee of purpose to crabbe with them. 1852 R. F. Burton Falconry in Valley of Indus v. 60 If two [hawks] are flown they are certain to fell the game at once, and the falconer is always flurried by their violent propensity to crab over the ‘pelt’. 1892 Note from Correspt. Two hawks soaring or on the ground will often claw each other, when they are said to ‘crab’. 2. a. transitive. To criticize adversely, cry down, find fault with, ‘peck at’, ‘pull to pieces’. slang or stable-talk, whence colloquial. Also absol. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > criticize [verb (transitive)] > captiously upbraidc1290 bite1330 to gnap at1533 carp1550 cavil1581 carp1587 to pick at ——1603 to pick a hole (also holes) in1614 yark1621 vellicate1633 to peck at1641 snob1654 ploat1757 to get at ——1803 crab1819 to pick up1846 knock1892 snark1904 kvetchc1950 to pick nits1978 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. (at cited word) To prevent the perfection or execution of any..business, by saying any thing offensive or unpleasant, is called crabbing it. 1862 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 23 385 Owners..will not send their horses to be crabbed and consequently lowered in value because they cannot pass a strict veterinary inspection. 1890 Times 6 Dec. 12/4 Officers naturally do not care to be frowned upon as men who ‘want to crab the new rifle’. 1890 F. W. Carew No. 747 xx. 228 Shice..alternately ‘crabbed’ and ‘chy-iked’ as the case might require. 1891 F. W. Maude Merciful Divorce 76 And you ‘crab’ the girl because she is able to take care of herself. 1892 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 151 128/2 To crab the complexions or the clothes of the people who occupied the pew in front. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 11 Aug. 1/2 The difference between us and you, said an American who had watched Mr. Chamberlain's Fiscal campaign, is that ‘we boom, and you crab’. 1925 F. S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby vii. 127 The thing to do is to forget about the heat... You make it ten times worse by crabbing about it. 1968 Listener 4 Apr. 444/2 To no other people can the classic principle of ‘first crib and then crab’ have been so consistently applied. b. To interfere with or obstruct the working, progress, or success of.Cf. quots. 1819, 1890 at sense 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > hinder in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > by interference mareOE disturbc1386 annoyc1405 interrupta1420 ail1499 blent1530 forelay1571 intervene1588 intervent1600 interpose1615 disrupt1817 derange1848 to put a crimp in (also into, on)1889 crab1899 1899 R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. xxi. 191 We was crabbed... The mugs might ha' wrecked the show. 1901 N.Y. Independent 12 Dec. (Cent. Dict. Suppl.) The use of foreign tires of course crabbed the deal. 1920 Glasgow Herald 18 Aug. 7 Posen contains a large German Irredentist minority, which might crab the Polish military defence. 1922 C. Sandburg Slabs of Sunburnt West 66 You're trying to crab my act. 1934 E. Bowen Cat Jumps 235 Seeming to crab Patsey's marriage. 1941 G. Heyer Envious Casca iv. 62 You've done all you can to crab Willoughby's play. 1955 Times 24 May 16/2 You made it your business to crab the performance. Categories » 3. ‘To break or bruise. northern’ (Halliwell.) This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022). crabv.3ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > with cudgel becudgel1591 rib-baste1598 craba1625 fustigate1656 gallantify1672 a1625 J. Fletcher Monsieur Thomas (1639) iv. vi. sig. K2v Get ye to bed, drab, Or Ile so crab your shoulders. ΚΠ 1721 C. Cibber Refusal i. 15 I hold six to four now, thou hast been crabb'd at Paris in the Missisippi. Granger. Not I, Faith, Sir; I would no more put my Money into the Stocks there, than my Legs into the Stocks here. 3. a. Nautical. (See quot. 1867.) ΚΠ 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Crabbing to it, carrying an overpress of sail in a fresh gale, by which a ship crabs or drifts sideways to leeward. b. Aeronautics. To put (an aeroplane) in a position diverging from the straight course; to fly at an angle to the longitudinal axis. Also in other transferred uses (transitive and intransitive) and with back, in, on. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > cause to move sideways [verb (transitive)] wind13.. sidle1779 sidestep1905 side-slip1906 crab1929 society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > navigation of course of aircraft > navigate aircraft [verb (transitive)] > diverge from straight course crab1929 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > move sideways [verb (intransitive)] side1826 crayfish1900 sidewind1909 side-slip1921 crab1964 1929 A. C. McKinley Appl. Aerial Photogr. 36 Adjusting the Camera for Crab.—On approaching the starting point of each strip the pilot will crab the airplane in order to make allowances for the wind. 1962 Punch 17 Jan. 134/3 He knows which [TV] cameras can be crabbed (moved sideways). 1964 G. Lyall Most Dangerous Game iii. 25 I crabbed in towards him, holding the knife low. 1964 G. Lyall Most Dangerous Game xviii. 116 I crabbed back to my chair and sat down. 1966 ‘W. Haggard’ Power House i. 12 Once skidding it [sc. a car] crabbed on helplessly. 1970 W. K. Kilford Elem. Air Survey (ed. 2) iv. 89 Crabbing gives rise to loss of stereoscopic cover, since the area of overlap between two consecutive photographs is reduced. Categories » 4. U.S. colloquial (figurative) = crawfish v. 5. Dyeing, etc. To subject to the operation of crabbing n.3 ΚΠ 1892 Prof. Hummel (in letter) Cloth that has not been crabbed. 6. See crabbing n.2 Derivatives crab n.5 Aeronautics a sideways movement of an aeroplane (see sense 3b). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > [noun] by-start1542 siding1646 crab1929 sidewinding1930 1929 A. C. McKinley Appl. Aerial Photogr. 13 So that..the necessary amount of crab can be obtained at which the airplane must fly. 1929 [see sense 3b]. 1959 J. L. Nayler Dict. Aeronaut. Engin. 70 Crab angle, a colloquial term for the angle of yaw. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < |
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