Dictionary Entry
crab
crab is a 4-letter English word with 23 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 23 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
The zodiacal constellation Cancer.
- 3adjective
A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste.
- 4adjective
A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
- 5adjective
A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
- 6adjective
A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
- 7adjective
A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
- 8adjective
A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
- 9transitive verb
To make sour or morose; to embitter.
- 10transitive verb
To beat with a crabstick.
- 11intransitive verb
To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.
- 12adjective
Sour; rough; austere.
- 13noun
a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply
"he caught a crab and lost the race"
- 14noun
decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
- 15noun
a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body
- 16noun
the edible flesh of any of various crabs
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- 17noun
the fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22
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- 18noun
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer
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- 19noun
a quarrelsome grouch
- 20verb
complain
"What was he hollering about?"
- 21verb
fish for crab
- 22verb
scurry sideways like a crab
- 23verb
direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind
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