Crab

[kræb]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply; 'he caught a crab and lost the race'.

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

(noun.) the edible flesh of any of various crabs.

(noun.) a quarrelsome grouch.

(verb.) fish for crab.

(verb.) scurry sideways like a crab.

(verb.) direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind.

編輯:谢恩--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(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.

(n.) The zodiacal constellation Cancer.

(a.) A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste.

(a.) A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.

(a.) A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.

(a.) A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.

(a.) A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.

(a.) A claw for anchoring a portable machine.

(v. t.) To make sour or morose; to embitter.

(v. t.) To beat with a crabstick.

(v. i.) To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.

(a.) Sour; rough; austere.

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解釋/意思:

n. a popular name applied to any of the short-tailed division of decapod crustaceans: a sign in the zodiac: a portable winch: a sour-tempered person: the lowest throw at hazard—two aces.—adj. Crabb′ed ill-natured: harsh: rough: difficult perplexing.—adv. Crabb′edly.—n. Crabb′edness.—adj. Crab′-faced having a sour peevish countenance.—n. Crab′ite a fossil crab or crayfish.—adj. Crab′-like moving like a crab.—n. Crab′-louse a crab-shaped louse infesting the hair of the pubis &c.—n.pl. Crab's′-eyes the scarlet seeds of an East Indian bead-tree: a concretion of carbonate of lime in the stomach of the cray-fish.—v.i. Crab′-sī′dle to go sideways like a crab.—n.pl. Crab′-yaws a name applied to the tumours of frambœsia on the soles and palms.—Catch a crab in rowing to sink the oar too deeply in the water: to miss the water altogether in making the stroke.

n. a wild bitter apple.—ns. Crab′-stick a stick made out of the crab-tree; Crab′-tree the tree that bears crab-apples.—adj. like a crab-tree crooked.

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