Word Finder - crabs

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

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The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat

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A bad-tempered person.

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(in plural crabs) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).

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Although crabs themselves are an easily treated inconvenience, the patient and his partner(s) clearly run major STD risks.

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A playing card with the rank of three.

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A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.

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A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.

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An unsold book that is returned to the publisher.

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To fish for crabs.

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To ruin.

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To complain.

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

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To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.

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To move (a camera) sideways.

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(World War I), to fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the machine guns on early aircraft did not allow firing through the propeller disk.

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To back out of something.

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The crab apple or wild apple.

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

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

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

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

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A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.

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A claw for anchoring a portable machine.

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(obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour

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To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.

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(British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick

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The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.

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Short for carabiner.

Shrimps, crabs and lobsters form an important source of food supply.

In this version, Mr. Crabs wants to expand his restaurant empire, and hires SpongeBob to help achieve his goal.

For wildlife aficionados, there are congers, cuckoo wrasse and dense shoals of bib as well as massive spider crabs and lobsters.

Dogfish swim around lazily, while large spider crabs clamber up steep rocky walls, over soft layers of seaweed or along sandy gullies.

We did see starfish, crabs, lobster, dead man's fingers, sponges and tube anemones and a few small fish.

Thus, prepared oystershells, coral, pearls, crabs' " eyes " and burnt hart's horn were regarded as specifics in different complaints, in ignorance of the fact that they all contain, as the chief ingredients, calcium phosphate and carbonate.

A curious effect of parasitism, well illustrated in crabs, though not confined to them, has been expounded by Professor Giard, namely, that it tends to obliterate the secondary sexual characters.

Afternoon tour to James Bay to see fur seals, land iguanas and sally lightfoot crabs.

The brightly colored sally lightfoot crabs are in stark contrast against the black rock.

Children love to dabble or fish for shore crabs and may well end up wet and muddy.

We did see starfish, crabs, lobster, dead man 's fingers, sponges and tube anemones and a few small fish.

However, crabs are very successful marine animals, so that unwieldy suit of armor, or exoskeleton, must have its advantages.

I am also looking for shrimp, hermit crabs and possibly turbo snails.

Velvet Crab Fishery The smaller inshore boats target velvet crabs.

Seagulls, sea turtles and crabs are just some of the other marine life you can find depicted on shower curtains.

M. baccata or Berry Apple (so called from its small round fruits) are known as Siberian Crabs.

For example, in order to build the cancer constellation, you're required to construct a katamari made completely out of crabs.

Pubic lice have large front legs and look like tiny crabs.

For example, when studying sea creatures it will be more interesting to visit a marine museum and science center to play in a touch-tank than to see pictures of starfish, sea urchins and hermit crabs.

The fishing vessels used to catch king crabs can be as small as 50 feet in length or as long as 300 feet in length.

Workers should be familiar with the gear used to catch the crabs, and crab pots are among the most important tools.

The metal traps rest on the seafloor and collect king crabs as they enter to take the bait.

Sorting through the crabs is challenging and workers have to follow rules outlined by the Alaska Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission (CFEC).

Nearby exhibits include sheep crabs and deep-reef predators.

After all, crabs have claws for a reason.

Hold a crab race with some inexpensive hermit crabs from the local pet shop.

Fans of Belle and Sebastian, Isobell Campbell, Camera Obscura, and The Hermit Crabs will hear something they like here.

A children's sandbox is the perfect place to build a sandcastle or other sandy creations, such as crabs, lobsters, shells and sea turtles.

You can often find toy crabs at dollar or discount stores.

While the guys on Deadliest Catch are out catching crabs in deadly conditions, these folks pull in fish that can weigh up to a thousand pounds.

These crabs are brown with deep blue highlights before cooked and after cooking are an orange-red so may often be served as red crab.

Brown or golden king crabs are the smallest in size of the three main species and are similar in taste to blue king crab.

The restaurant offers a variety of steamed crab dishes, but their garlic crabs are untouchable.

This inviting restaurant is renowned for its ricotta cheesecake and soft shell crabs.

He has to be out there, caught in the seaweed at the bottom of Chesapeake Bay, with the fish and crabs having a party, getting as bloated as the fat Wassermann twin lying on the slab at the Norfolk morgue.

The celebrated Gascoigne's powder, which was sold as late as the middle of the 19th century in the form of balls like sal prunella, consisted of equal parts of crabs' eyes," the black tips of crabs' claws, Oriental pearls, Oriental bezoar and white coral, and was administered in jelly made of hart's horn, but was prescribed by physicians chiefly for wealthy people, as it cost about forty shillings per ounce.

Buffalo-fish, paddle-fish, cat-fish, drum, crappie, black bass, rock bass, German carp, sturgeon, pike, perch, eels, suckers and shrimp inhabit the waters of the Mississippi and its tributaries, and oysters, shrimp, trout, Spanish mackerel, channel bass, black bass, sheepshead, mullet, croakers, pompano, pin-fish, blue-fish, flounders, crabs and terrapin are obtained from the Mississippi Sound and the rivers flowing into it.

Lamarck at the same time founded the class Crustacea for the lobsters, crabs and water-fleas, also until then included in the order Aptera of Linnaeus.

When living near the coast foxes will, however, visit the shore at low water in search of crabs and whelks; and the old story of the fox and the grapes seems to be founded upon a partiality on the part of the creature for that fruit.

They include oysters, crabs of great size, and a small mussel, found in enormous numbers.

In consequence of the breaking away of the lower part of "Cleopatra's Needles" when removed to Alexandria and re-erected, the Roman engineers supported the angles on bronze crabs, one of which with three reproductions now supports the angles of the obelisk on the Thames Embankment.

The metacestode-larva occurs free in the intestine of fish, Cephalopods and crabs, and is known as Scolex polymorphus.

Naturally these migratory crabs are not limited to Japanese waters.

Hampton is an agricultural shipping point, ships fish, oysters and canned crabs, and manufactures fish oil and brick.

Soft clams, lobsters, hard crabs and soft crabs are other shell-fish obtained in small quantities.

The waters of the Chesapeake Bay are especially rich in oysters and crabs, and there, also, shad, alewives, " striped " (commonly called " rock ") bass, menhaden, white perch and weak-fish (" sea-trout ") occur in large numbers.

Crabs are next in value and are caught chiefly along the East Shore and in Anne Arundel and Calvert counties on the West Shore.

The great catches are herring, cod and ling, but lobsters and crabs are also exported in large quantities.

The annual value of the shell-fish (lobsters, crabs, oysters, mussels, clams, periwinkles, cockles, shrimps) is about £73,000.

Next in importance were the catches of menhaden, shad, clams, squeteague and alewives; while minor catches were made of crabs, croaker, bluefish, butterfish, catfish, perch and spotted and striped bass.