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Substantiivi

1. Any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
2. (informal) Clipping of carabiner, modified based on likening the shape of a carabiner to a crab's claw.
3. The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.
4. The crab apple or wild apple.
5. (uncountable) The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
6. The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
7. Various other animals that resemble true crabs:
8. A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
9. Any of various crustacean in the infraorder Anomura, usually excluding squat lobsters.
10. A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
11. A horseshoe crab.
12. A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
13. A bad-tempered person.
14. A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
15. A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
16. (in plural crabs, informal) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
17. (uncountable, aviation) 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.
18. (poker slang) A playing card with the rank of three.
19. (rowing) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
20. A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
21. (dated) An unsold book that is returned to the publisher.

Verbi

1. (obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour
2. (intransitive) To fish for crabs.
3. To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
4. (transitive, US, slang) To ruin.
5. (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
6. (intransitive) To complain.
7. (obsolete, transitive) To offend or insult.
8. (transitive) To complain about.
9. (intransitive) To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
10. To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
11. (transitive, film, television) To move (a camera) sideways.
12. (transitive, aviation) To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
13. (obsolete, 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.
14. (rare) To back out of something.