crab
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1. crab - Noun
2. crab - Adjective
3. crab - Verb
Meaning
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.
A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste.
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.
To make sour or morose; to embitter.
To beat with a crabstick.
To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.
Sour; rough; austere.
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Hierocles: You will never make the crab walk straight. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.
There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.
The snake and the crab don't sleep in the same hole.
The crab instructs its young: "Walk straight ahead - like me.”.
A lame crab walks straight.