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crabber

noun

Etymology

From crab (“crustacean having five pairs of legs”) + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (relational noun suffix).

  1. inherited from *krabbô✻
  2. inherited from *krabbō✻
  3. inherited from crabba — “crab; crayfish; cancer”
  4. inherited from crabbe
  5. formed as crabber — “crab + -er”

Definitions

  1. A person who catches crabs.

    • Many shrimpers complain that the crabbers place their traps too close together and that they can't go between the traps without snagging their nets.

  2. A boat used for catching crabs.

    • In the bright haze of morning they came into Hort Harbor, where a hundred craft were moored or setting forth: fishermen's boats, crabbers, trawlers, trading-ships, two galleys of twenty oars […]

  3. A person who finds fault or criticizes.

    • There were one or two crabbers, of course—people who wanted his job—but no one paid any attention to the likes of them.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for crabber. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA