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| crab | |
| 1. cangrejo | |
| inglés > inglés | |
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| crab | |
| 1. s. A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace. |  |
| 2. s. The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat | |
| 3. s. A bad-tempered person. | |
| 4. s. (in plural crabs, informal) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis). | |
| Although crabs themselves are an easily treated inconvenience, the patient and his partner(s) clearly run major STD risks. | |
| 5. s. (slang) A playing card with the rank of three. | |
| 6. s. (rowing) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water. | |
| 7. s. A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use. | |
| 8. v. (intransitive) To fish for crabs. | |
| 9. v. (transitive, US, slang) To ruin. | |
| 10. v. (intransitive) To complain. | |
| 11. v. (intransitive) To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab). | |
| 12. v. To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course. | |
| 13. v. (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. v. (rare) To back out of something. | |
| 15. s. The crab apple or wild apple. | |
| 16. s. The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use. | |
| 17. s. A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick. | |
| 18. s. A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc. | |
| 19. s. A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc. | |
| 20. s. A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn. | |
| 21. s. A claw for anchoring a portable machine. | |
| 22. v. (obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour | |
| 23. v. To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault. | |
| 24. v. (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick | |
| 25. s. The tree species , native of South America. | |
| 26. s. Short for carabiner. | |
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| cangrejo | |
| 1. n-m. crab | |
