Crab vs. Scuttle

Any of various chiefly marine decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, having a hard carapace that covers a broad flattened cephalothorax with a small abdomen tucked beneath it, and an anterior pair of legs that are large and pincerlike.

A small opening or hatch with a movable lid in the deck or hull of a ship or in the roof, wall, or floor of a building.

Any of various similar decapod crustaceans, such as a hermit crab or a king crab.

The lid or hatch of such an opening.

Crabmeat.

A metal pail for carrying coal.

A crab louse.

A shallow open basket for carrying vegetables, flowers, or grain.

Crabs(Slang) Infestation by crab lice.

A hurried run.

The maneuvering of an aircraft partially into a crosswind to compensate for drift.

To cut or open a hole or holes in (a ship's hull).

A machine for handling or hoisting heavy weights.

To sink (a ship) by this means.

A crabapple tree or its fruit.

To thwart, ruin, or terminate

A quarrelsome, ill-tempered person.

To run or move with short hurried movements; scurry.

See Cancer.

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

To hunt or catch crabs.

A broad, shallow basket.

To scurry sideways in the manner of a crab.

A dish, platter or a trencher.

To drift diagonally or sideways, especially when under tow.

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

To direct an aircraft into a crosswind.

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

To direct (an aircraft) partly into a crosswind to eliminate drift.

A quick pace; a short run.

To cause to move or scurry sideways.

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

To find fault; criticize someone or something.

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

(Informal) To interfere with and ruin; spoil.

To deliberately wreck one's vehicle (of any sort).

(Informal) To find fault with; complain about.

To undermine or thwart oneself or one's position or property, especially deliberately.

To make ill-tempered or sullen.

(intransitive) To move hastily, to scurry.

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

A broad, shallow basket.

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

A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.

A bad-tempered person.

A quick pace; a short run.

An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).

A small opening in an outside wall or covering, furnished with a lid.

The angle by which an aircraft's nose is pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing; its crab angle.

The lid or door which covers or closes an opening in a roof, wall, or the like.

The state of an aircraft's nose being pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing.

To run with affected precipitation; to hurry; to bustle; to scuddle.

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

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

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

To sink by making holes through the bottom of; as, to scuttle a ship.

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

To defeat, frustrate, abandon, or cause to be abandoned; - of plans, projects, actions, hopes; as, the review committee scuttled the project due to lack of funds.

(dated) An unsold book that is returned to the publisher.

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

The crab apple or wild apple.

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

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

To move about or proceed hurriedly;

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

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.

A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.

A claw for anchoring a portable machine.

The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.

(informal) carabiner

(intransitive) To fish for crabs.

To ruin.

(intransitive) To complain.

(transitive) To complain about.

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

To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.

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

To move (a camera) sideways.

, 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.

(rare) To back out of something.

(obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour

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

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

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.

The zodiacal constellation Cancer.

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

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

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

To make sour or morose; to embitter.

To beat with a crabstick.

To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.

Sour; rough; austere.

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

A quarrelsome grouch

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

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

The edible flesh of any of various crabs

Infests the pubic region of the human body

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

Direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind

Scurry sideways like a crab

Fish for crab

Complain;