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  • crab hawk
    [W Car.] n. a gray and white bird (sp?), smaller than a fishhawk, which preys on crabs. (Black)
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  • crabfat-and-dough
    See CRAB-AND-DOUGH.
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  • Crab-catcher
    n. 1. [DJE idem; from diet] a heron, Nycticorax nycticorax: 1960 (Bond 36). = GAULIN, NIGHT GAULIN (Black) 2. [from the custom
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  • crabby
    (Black); crab (Andros) [etym?] n. vulva and pubic region (especially of preadolescents): All them girls get crabby but they does act
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  • crab bush
    n. a tall, slender shrub (sp?) used medi­cinally. cf. CRAB WOOD (Black)
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  • crabbish
    [OED, cross, crabbed obs.→ 1606] adj. contrary, fractious: That boy's getting to be real crabbish these days (Nassau). (Gen.)
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  • crabbening
    [cf. DAE crab to catch crabs; verb stem based on Eng. present participle] n. crabbing; catching crabs: We did gone crabbening
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  • crab-basket plait
    n. a coarse weave of broad strips of STRAW1 for CRAB BASKETS. (Black)
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  • crab basket
    [Car.; DJE, double basket with handle) n. a single, large, coarsely-woven basket without a handle with its mouth sewn nearly shut, leaving only
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  • crab back
    [cf. BACKS; cf. Ibo azu back; crab-shell (Okolo p.c.) cf. Haitian do-krab-la idem (Gaujean p.c.)] n. crab shell: 1966 Take
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