Crab

1. a. Sour; rough; austere.
2. n. One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.
3. n. The zodiacal constellation Cancer.
4. a. A crab apple; — so named from its harsh taste.
5. a. A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
6. a. A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
7. a. A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
8. a. A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
9. a. A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
10. v. t. To make sour or morose; to embitter.
11. 1a. 1 Sour; rough; austere.
12. 1n. 1 One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.