Crossword-Solution: CRAB
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Crab | n. | One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body. |
| Crab | n. | The zodiacal constellation Cancer. |
| Crab | a. | A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste. |
| Crab | a. | A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick. |
| Crab | a. | A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc. |
| Crab | a. | A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc. |
| Crab | a. | A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn. |
| Crab | a. | A claw for anchoring a portable machine. |
| Crab | v. t. | To make sour or morose; to embitter. |
| Crab | v. t. | To beat with a crabstick. |
| Crab | v. i. | To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel. |
| Crab | a. | Sour; rough; austere. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CRAB | anagram | BARC, BCAR, BRAC, CARB, CBAR |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with CRAB (5)
The Crab and Its Mother A CRAB said to her son, “Why do you walk so one-sided, my child? It is far more becoming to go straight forward.” The young Crab replied: “Quite true, dear Mother; and if you will show me the straight way, I will promise to walk in it.” The Mother tried in vain, and submitted without remonstrance to the reproof of her child.
Can you imagine a crab as large as yonder table, with its many legs moving slowly and uncertainly, its big claws swaying, its long antennæ, like carters’ whips, waving and feeling, and its stalked eyes gleaming at you on either side of its metallic front? Its back was corrugated and ornamented with ungainly bosses, and a greenish incrustation blotched it here and there.
Have you never seen one ploughman from the heights, or one shepherd from the valleys? Have you never walked along a cliff, and seen one man walking along the sands? Didn’t you know when he’s killed a crab, and wouldn’t you have known if it had been a creditor? No! No! No! For an intelligent murderer, such as you or I might be, it is an impossible plan to make sure that nobody is looking at you.” “But what other plan is there?” “There is only one,” said the priest.
She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last.
When a crab has lost a leg, his gait is still more awkward than his wont, till Time and healing Nature make him totus teres atque rotundus once more.
Quotes with CRAB (3)
Nay, 'twill be this hour ere I have done weeping. All the kind of the Launces have this very fault. I have received my proportion, like the prodigious son, and am going with Sir Proteus to the Imperial's court. I think Crab, my dog, be the sourest-natured dog that lives. My mother weeping, my father wailing, my sister crying, our maid howling, our cat wringing her hands, and all our house in a great perplexity, yet did not this cruel-hearted cur shed one tear. He is a stone, …
I once had a patient who was convinced that his head was full of sea water and a crab lived inside. When I asked him what happened to his brain he told me that aliens had sucked it out with a drinking straw." It is better this way," he insisted. "Now there's more room for the crab.
Pausing on the threshold, he looked in, conscious not so much of the few familiar sticks of furniture - the trucklebed, the worn strip of Brussels carpet, the chipped blue-banded ewer and basin, the framed illuminated texts on the walls - as of a perfect hive of abhorrent memories. That high cupboard in the corner, from which certain bodiless shapes had been wont to issue and stoop at him cowering out of his dreams; the crab-patterned paper that came alive as you stared; the …
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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 678 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).