Crab

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 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.

To make sour or morose; to embitter.

To beat with a crabstick.

To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.

Sour; rough; austere.

decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers

a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body