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 |
Crab
(a.) A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree |
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 |
Crab
(v. t.) To beat with a crabstick. |
Crab
(v. i.) To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel. |
Crab
(a.) Sour |
Crab tree
() See under Crab. |
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. |
Crane
(n.) A measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel. |
Crane
(n.) A wading bird of the genus Grus, and allied genera, of various species, having a long, straight bill, and long legs and neck. |
Crane
(n.) A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral distance. In one form it consists of a projecting arm or jib of timber or iron, a rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc. |
Crane
(n.) An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace, for supporting kettles, etc., over a fire. |
Crane
(n.) A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask. |
Crane
(n.) A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc., -- generally used in pairs. See Crotch, 2. |
Crane
(v. t.) To cause to rise |
Crane
(v. t.) To stretch, as a crane stretches its neck |
Crane
(v. i.) to reach forward with head and neck, in order to see better |
Crane's-bill
(n.) The geranium |
Crane's-bill
(n.) A pair of long-beaked forceps. |
Girder
(n.) One who girds |
Girder
(n.) One who, or that which, girds. |
Girder
(n.) A main beam |
Glass-crab
(n.) The larval state (Phyllosoma) of the genus Palinurus and allied genera. It is remarkable for its strange outlines, thinness, and transparency. See Phyllosoma. |
Grab
(n.) A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts. |
Grab
(v. t. & i.) To gripe suddenly |
Grab
(n.) A sudden grasp or seizure. |
Grab
(n.) An instrument for clutching objects for the purpose of raising them |
Removable
(a.) Admitting of being removed. |
Runway
(n.) The channel of a stream. |
Runway
(n.) The beaten path made by deer or other animals in passing to and from their feeding grounds. |
Water crane
() A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive. |
catch
grab
snatch
snap | the act of catching an object with the hands, Mays made the catch with his back to the plate, he made a grab for the ball before it landed, Martin's snatch at the bridle failed and the horse raced away, the infielder's snap and throw was a single motion |
| crab | a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply, he caught a crab and lost the race |
horseshoe crab
king crab Limulus polyphemus
Xiphosurus polyphemus | large marine arthropod of the Atlantic coast of North America having a domed carapace that is shaped like a horseshoe and a stiff pointed tail, a living fossil related to the wood louse |
| Asian horseshoe crab | horseshoe crab of the coast of eastern Asia |
| crab-eating opossum | South American opossum |
| crab | decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers |
stone crab
Menippe mercenaria | large edible crab of the southern coast of the United States (particularly Florida) |
| hard-shell crab | edible crab that has not recently molted and so has a hard shell |
soft-shell crab
soft-shelled crab | edible crab that has recently molted and not yet formed its new shell |
Dungeness crab
Cancer magister | small edible crab of Pacific coast of North America |
rock crab
Cancer irroratus | crab of eastern coast of North America |
Jonah crab
Cancer borealis | large red deep-water crab of the eastern coast of North America |
| swimming crab | marine crab with some legs flattened and fringed for swimming |
English lady crab
Portunus puber | crab of the English coasts |
American lady crab
lady crab
calico crab
Ovalipes ocellatus | brightly spotted crab of sandy beaches of the Atlantic coast of the United States |
blue crab
Callinectes sapidus | bluish edible crab of Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America |
| fiddler crab | burrowing crab of American coastal regions having one claw much enlarged in the male |
| pea crab | tiny soft-bodied crab living commensally in the mantles of certain bivalve mollusks |
oyster crab
Pinnotheres ostreum | tiny soft-bodied crab living within the mantle cavity of oysters |
king crab Alaska crab
Alaskan king crab
Alaska king crab
Paralithodes camtschatica | large edible crab of northern Pacific waters especially along the coasts of Alaska and Japan |
| spider crab | any of numerous crabs with very long legs and small triangular bodies |
European spider crab
king crab Maja squinado | a large spider crab of Europe |
giant crab
Macrocheira kaempferi | very large deep-water Japanese crab |
| hermit crab | small soft-bodied marine crustaceans living in cast-off shells of gastropods |
mantis shrimp
mantis crab | tropical marine burrowing crustaceans with large grasping appendages |
| crane | large long-necked wading bird of marshes and plains in many parts of the world |
whooping crane
whooper Grus americana | rare North American crane having black-and-white plumage and a trumpeting call |
crabeater seal
crab-eating seal | silvery grey Antarctic seal subsisting on crustaceans |
crab-eating dog
crab-eating fox
Dusicyon cancrivorus | wild dog of northern South America |
crab louse
pubic louse
crab Phthirius pubis | a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body |
crane fly
daddy longlegs | long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite |
crab-eating macaque
croo monkey
Macaca irus | monkey of southeast Asia, Borneo and the Philippines |
crab-eating raccoon
Procyon cancrivorus | a South American raccoon |
box beam
box girder | a beam built up from boards, has a hollow rectangular cross section |
| crane | lifts and moves heavy objects, lifting tackle is suspended from a pivoted boom that rotates around a vertical axis |
| girder | a beam made usually of steel, a main support in a structure |
| grab | a mechanical device for gripping an object |
| grab bag | a container from which a person draws a wrapped item at random without knowing the contents |
| grab bar | a bar attached parallel to a wall to provide a handgrip for steadying yourself |
| removable disk | a hard disk that can be removed from the disk drive, removal prevents unauthorized use |
| runway | a strip of level paved surface where planes can take off and land |
| runway | a narrow platform extending from the stage into the audience in a theater or nightclub etc. |
| runway | a chute down which logs can slide |
track rail rails
runway | a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll |
| grab sample | a single sample or measurement taken at a specific time or over as short a period as feasible |
| crab cocktail | a cocktail of cold cooked crabmeat and a sauce |
crab apple
crabapple | small sour apple, suitable for preserving, crabapples make a tangy jelly |
crab
crabmeat | the edible flesh of any of various crabs |
| blue crab | Atlantic crab, most common source of fresh crabmeat |
| crab legs | legs of especially Alaska king crabs |