Crab is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CRAB in dictionary:

VERB:
• to obstruct, frustrate
• move sideways or obliquely
• steer (an aircraft or ship) slightly sideways to compensate for a crosswind or current
• fish for crabs
• grumble about something petty
• act so as to spoil (something)
• To make sour or morose; to embitter.
• To beat with a crabstick.
• To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.
• direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind
• scurry sideways like a crab
• catch crabs
NOUN:
• a marine crustacean
• a crustacean, found chiefly on seashores, with a broad carapace, stalked eyes, and five pairs of legs, the first pair of which are modified as pincers.
• the flesh of a crab as food.
• the zodiacal sign or constellation Cancer.
• a louse that infests human body hair, especially in the genital region, causing extreme irritation.
• an infestation of crab lice
• a machine with pincer-like arms for lifting heavy weights.
• edible shellfish with ten legs, the first pair modified into pincers
• 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.
• The zodiacal constellation Cancer.
• decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
• a quarrelsome grouch
• (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer
• the fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22
• the edible flesh of any of various crabs
• a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body
• a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply
ADJECTIVE:
• A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste.
• A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
• A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
• A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
• A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
• A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
• Sour; rough; austere.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to complain

Words related to CRAB

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How to use CRAB in a sentence

• The bushes grew thick on the hillside and their branches were stubborn as crab thorns.
• Off in the distance he spies a young gentleman crab making love to a beautiful female.
• So he came to the highroad and to where a little thatched cottage stood back of a cluster of twisted crab trees, with flowers in front of it.
• Mother Crab carries her eggs with her, under her tail, which itself is always kept tucked up under her body.
• Soon the shell breaks across, and the Crab struggles to get free.
• I was once watching a big Crab eating his dinner under a rocky ledge in a large glass tank.
• I want to show you the Bay and feed you some proper crab cakes.
• At length he caught a crab and went heels over head backward on the ground, and they left him to recover his breath and his temper.
• The fish, being in danger from the shark, leaped out on to the dry ground and took the shape of a crab, which hid in a spring where a princess was bathing.
• The shark followed in the shape of a cat, which began to search under the stones for the crab, but the crab escaped by changing itself into a ring on the finger of the princess.
• But here are species which they have not in their catalogue, not to mention the varieties which our Crab might yield to cultivation.
• Then the guard tossed in a crab, but one without any string whatever.
• The crab scrambled through the stones, sheltering itself in their windings.
• He had gone too far to go back and he saw no one within call, so he looked about and presently found a crab hole.
• Crab called to them, but it was no use, so he went on his way.
• A great crab he is, who walks upon the tips of his toes a foot high above the ground.
• Crab Meat in Shells You can buy very nice, fresh crab meat in tins, and the shells also.
• The crab gained nothing and the Sacculina became rapidly impotent.
• The Crab under the tree thus got his shell badly bruised, and only by good luck escaped into his hole, where he lay distressed with pain, and not able to get up.
• The crab pulls the rope on his load so tightly that he breaks his big legs and dies.
• If that fruit were an apple it must have been a crab.
• But with the first stroke she missed the water altogether, and with the next caught a crab, which checked the boat dead.

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