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Crab and Scuttle Definitions

Crab

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.

Scuttle

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.

Crab

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

Scuttle

The lid or hatch of such an opening.

Crab

Crabmeat.
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Scuttle

A metal pail for carrying coal.

Crab

A crab louse.

Scuttle

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

Crab

Crabs(Slang) Infestation by crab lice.

Scuttle

A hurried run.
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Crab

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

Scuttle

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

Crab

A machine for handling or hoisting heavy weights.

Scuttle

To sink (a ship) by this means.

Crab

A crabapple tree or its fruit.

Scuttle

To thwart, ruin, or terminate
“a program [the] President ... sought to scuttle” (Christian Science Monitor).

Crab

A quarrelsome, ill-tempered person.

Scuttle

To run or move with short hurried movements; scurry.

Crab

See Cancer.

Scuttle

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

Crab

To hunt or catch crabs.

Scuttle

A broad, shallow basket.

Crab

To scurry sideways in the manner of a crab.

Scuttle

A dish, platter or a trencher.

Crab

To drift diagonally or sideways, especially when under tow.

Scuttle

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

Crab

To direct an aircraft into a crosswind.

Scuttle

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

Crab

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

Scuttle

A quick pace; a short run.

Crab

To cause to move or scurry sideways.

Scuttle

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

Crab

To find fault; criticize someone or something.

Scuttle

(transitive) To deliberately sink one's ship or boat by any means, usually by order of the vessel's commander or owner.
The Vichy French fleet in Toulon in 1942 scuttled itself as a final "fuck you" to the invading Germans.

Crab

(Informal) To interfere with and ruin; spoil.

Scuttle

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

Crab

(Informal) To find fault with; complain about.

Scuttle

To undermine or thwart oneself or one's position or property, especially deliberately.
The candidate had scuttled his chances with his unhinged outburst.

Crab

To make ill-tempered or sullen.

Scuttle

(intransitive) To move hastily, to scurry.

Crab

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

Scuttle

A broad, shallow basket.

Crab

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

Scuttle

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

Crab

A bad-tempered person.

Scuttle

A quick pace; a short run.

Crab

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.

Scuttle

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

Crab

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 pilot had to hold fifteen degrees of crab during the approach to keep her plane from getting blown off the localizer course.

Scuttle

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

Crab

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

Scuttle

To run with affected precipitation; to hurry; to bustle; to scuddle.
With the first dawn of day, old Janet was scuttling about the house to wake the baron.

Crab

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

Scuttle

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

Crab

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

Scuttle

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

Crab

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

Scuttle

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.

Crab

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

Scuttle

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

Crab

The crab apple or wild apple.

Scuttle

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

Crab

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

Scuttle

To move about or proceed hurriedly;
So terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground

Crab

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

Crab

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

Crab

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

Crab

A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.

Crab

A claw for anchoring a portable machine.

Crab

The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.

Crab

(informal) carabiner

Crab

(intransitive) To fish for crabs.

Crab

To ruin.

Crab

(intransitive) To complain.

Crab

(transitive) To complain about.

Crab

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

Crab

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

Crab

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

Crab

To move (a camera) sideways.

Crab

, 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.

Crab

(rare) To back out of something.

Crab

(obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour

Crab

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

Crab

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

Crab

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.

Crab

The zodiacal constellation Cancer.

Crab

A crab apple; - so named from its harsh taste.
When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,Then nightly sings the staring owl.

Crab

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

Crab

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

Crab

To make sour or morose; to embitter.
Sickness sours or crabs our nature.

Crab

To beat with a crabstick.

Crab

To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.

Crab

Sour; rough; austere.
The crab vintage of the neighb'ring coast.

Crab

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

Crab

A quarrelsome grouch

Crab

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

Crab

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

Crab

The edible flesh of any of various crabs

Crab

Infests the pubic region of the human body

Crab

A stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply;
He caught a crab and lost the race

Crab

Direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind

Crab

Scurry sideways like a crab

Crab

Fish for crab

Crab

Complain;
What was he hollering about?

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