crab

Any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.

The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.

But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw[…]that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.

Various other animals that resemble true crabs:

Despite its name, the hermit crab is not a true crab!

Various other animals that resemble true crabs:

A bad-tempered person.

She so obviously enjoyed every second of the concert that only the most stubborn crab could not have been warmed by her charm.

To fish for crabs.

To ruin.

I thought at the time that that little speech meant a savin' of eight dollars,[…] But the Missus crabbed it a few minutes after her and Bess come in the room.

‘Just so we understand each other,’ he said after a pause. ‘If you crab this case, you'll be in a jam.’

To complain.

“The thing to do is to forget about the heat,” said Tom impatiently. “You make it ten times worse by crabbing about it.”

And if we do have to walk, I don't want to have to listen to you crabbing at me, Tad Trenton.

To complain about.

Well, because of this state of things they crabbed his scheme from the first, ridiculed it, wrote against it, spread broadcast a feeling of distrust.

To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).

Mutt stalked forward, matching him, step for step, crabbing sideways the way wolves do when they're going for the kill.

The aircraft crabbed sideways in the cross-winds and leveled to horizontal.

The crab apple or wild apple.

I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow; And I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts;

Just as by cultivation the acrid wild crab has been developed into the beautiful and luscious apple, may the unripe, ill-fed, neglected wild fruits of the fields and slums be developed into pure and noble and beautiful men and women.

The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.

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

She swore to such things , that I could do nothing but swear and call names : upon which out bolts her husband upon me , with a fine taper crab in his hand and fell upon me with such violence , that , being half delirious , I made a full confession

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.