Crab

"But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw[…]that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either."

"Despite its name, the hermit crab is not a true crab!"

"She swore to such things , that I could do nothing but swear and call names : upon which out bolts her husband upon me , with a fine taper crab in his hand and fell upon me with such violence , that , being half delirious , I made a full confession"

"She so obviously enjoyed every second of the concert that only the most stubborn crab could not have been warmed by her charm."

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

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

"-- "I suppose you wouldn't like to do a locum for a month on the South coast? Three guineas a week with board and lodging." -- "I wouldn't mind," said Philip. -- "It's at Farnley, in Dorsetshire. Doctor South. You'd have to go down at once; his assistant has developed mumps. I believe it's a very pleasant place." There was something in the secretary's manner that puzzled Philip. It was a little doubtful. -- "What's the crab in it?" he asked."

"[…] the unsold copies may be returned to the original publisher , at a period fixed upon between Christmas and Easter; these returned copies are technically called krebse or crabs, probably, from their walking backwards. […] A says to B, "I have had eight thousand dollars' worth of your publications, three thousand were crabs, that makes five thousand.""

"“The thing to do is to forget about the heat,” said Tom impatiently. “You make it ten times worse by crabbing about it.”"

"Get you to bed, drab, courage Or l'll so crab your shoulders!"

"Well, because of this state of things they crabbed his scheme from the first, ridiculed it, wrote against it, spread broadcast a feeling of distrust."

"If I think one thing and speak another, / I will both crab Christ and our Ladie His mother."

"Mutt stalked forward, matching him, step for step, crabbing sideways the way wolves do when they're going for the kill."

"Time slowed down then, became liquid in the aftermath of his grotesque, unfolding limbs; he crabbed his way down the faded line, rocking back and forth in braces he would use all his life."

"If panning is not easy to make seem natural, crabbing the camera is even less like any action we perform with our eyes in the real world. There are a few circumstances in which we walk sideways: […]"

"“Nothing can possibly go wrong.” “Just as you say, sir. But I still have that feeling.” The blood of the Woosters is hot, and I was about to tell him in set terms what I thought of his bally feeling, when I suddenly spotted what it was that was making him crab the act."