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Crab
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(a.) A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
(2):
(a.) A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
(3):
(n.) The zodiacal constellation Cancer.
(4):
(a.) A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
(5):
(a.) A crab apple; - so named from its harsh taste.
(6):
(v. t.) To make sour or morose; to embitter.
(7):
(v. t.) To beat with a crabstick.
(8):
(v. i.) To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.
(9):
(a.) Sour; rough; austere.
(10):
(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.
(11):
(a.) A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
(12):
(a.) A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Crab'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/c/crab.html. 1828.
