Crab vs. Scuttle

Crab vs. Scuttle — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Crab and Scuttle

Crabnoun

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

Scuttlenoun

A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal).

Crabnoun

(uncountable) The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat

Scuttlenoun

A broad, shallow basket.

Crabnoun

A bad-tempered person.

Scuttlenoun

A dish, platter or a trencher.

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Crabnoun

An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).

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

Scuttlenoun

A small hatch or opening in a boat. Also, small opening in a boat or ship for draining water from open deck.

Crabnoun

(slang) A playing card with the rank of three.

Scuttlenoun

(construction) A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building.

Crabnoun

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

Scuttlenoun

A quick pace; a short run.

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Crabnoun

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

Scuttleverb

To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.

Crabnoun

The crab apple or wild apple.

Scuttleverb

(transitive) To deliberately sink one's ship or boat by any means, usually by order of the vessel's commander or owner.

Crabnoun

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

Scuttleverb

Undermine or thwart oneself (sometimes intentionally), or denigrate or destroy one's position or property; compare scupper.

The candidate had scuttled his chances with his unhinged outburst.

Crabnoun

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

Scuttleverb

(intransitive) To move hastily, to scurry.

Crabnoun

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

Scuttlenoun

container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire

Crabnoun

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

Scuttlenoun

an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship

Crabnoun

A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.

Scuttleverb

to move about or proceed hurriedly;

so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground

Crabnoun

A claw for anchoring a portable machine.

Crabnoun

The tree species Carapa guianensis, native of South America.

Crabnoun

Short for carabiner.

Crabverb

(intransitive) To fish for crabs.

Crabverb

To ruin.

Crabverb

(intransitive) To complain.

Crabverb

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

Crabverb

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

Crabverb

, 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.

Crabverb

(rare) To back out of something.

Crabverb

(obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour

Crabverb

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

Crabverb

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

Crabnoun

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

Crabnoun

a quarrelsome grouch

Crabnoun

(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer

Crabnoun

the fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22

Crabnoun

the edible flesh of any of various crabs

Crabnoun

infests the pubic region of the human body

Crabnoun

a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply;

he caught a crab and lost the race

Crabverb

direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind

Crabverb

scurry sideways like a crab

Crabverb

fish for crab

Crabverb

complain;

What was he hollering about?