crab-stickn.1
a. A stick or cudgel of the wood of the crab-tree.
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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
1703 R. Steele Tender Husband i. i Do you see this Crab-stick, you Dog?
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 114 A crab-stick, which was all the weapon he had, brought the fellow to the ground with the first blow.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. iii. vi. 205 Brave young Egalité reaches Switzerland..with a strong crabstick in his hand.
b. Application of this in chastisement.
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1830 G. P. R. James Darnley I. v. 116 My own quantity of crabstick.
c. figurative. A bad-tempered, crabbed person.
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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
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cross-piecea1652
cross-patch1699
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frump1817
catamaran1834
patch1839
crab-stick1840
hunkster1842
grump1900
wampus1912
maltalent1965
1840 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley xxxv, in Dublin Univ. Mag. Oct. 448/2 Our colonel, the most cross-grained old crabstick that ever breathed.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Crab-stick, a bad-tempered child.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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