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 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.

Arrested by the low price of another “desirable residence”, I asked “What's the crab?” The agent assured me that there was no crab. I fell in love with this house at sight. Happily, I discovered that it was reputed to be haunted.

[…] 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."

[…] unsold copies and settling the yearly accounts; while for the publisher begins the much dreaded season of "crabs," as […]

I thought at the time that that little speech meant a savin' of eight dollars,[…] But the Missus crabbed it a few minutes after her and Bess come in the room.

‘Just so we understand each other,’ he said after a pause. ‘If you crab this case, you'll be in a jam.’

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

And if we do have to walk, I don't want to have to listen to you crabbing at me, Tad Trenton.

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.

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

The aircraft crabbed sideways in the cross-winds and leveled to horizontal.

Another shouted order and again the squares crabbed sideways.

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.

Foot by foot, he crabbed his way down another ninety feet of rock chimney until he stood on solid ground again, still very much alive.

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.

I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow; And I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts;

Just as by cultivation the acrid wild crab has been developed into the beautiful and luscious apple, may the unripe, ill-fed, neglected wild fruits of the fields and slums be developed into pure and noble and beautiful men and women.

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

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

I was on a horse named The Skipper, a perfect terror to ride when he was in a bad humour, which he invariably was; nevertheless he was a splendid hunter and I never crabbed him.

The Shiremans had a down on him over stores he'd condemned as not fit for dogs, let alone able seamen, and they'd got wind he was a socialist, and they crabbed him all over the shipping companies' offices.

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

This Crab, I confeſſe, did ill become the heavens[.]

Cancer, or the Crab, commandeth the Stomach, Limbs, Arteries, Milt, Liver and Gall.

The Crab was said to be sent by Juno to bite Hercules in the heel; the Scorpion to have been sent by Ceres to sting Orion.

The Crab and the Scorpion much resemble each other, as indeed they do in many other instances, the former being a reduplication of the latter.

Now, if you went down into the forest where the spring gum-tips gleam gold and ruby in whatever sunshine, Heaven thinks fit to apportion at this season to residents of the Dandenongs (who surely were all born Aquarians) what sign of the Zodiac would you expect to meet? [...] Not Taurus the Bull, who is paddocked, or Cancer the Crab, who lives underground in these regions.

‘’Tis so, Owlface,’ said Catweazle, ‘the Sign of the Crab.’