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Crabbing   Listen
noun
Crabbing  n.  
1.
The act or art of catching crabs.
2.
(Falconry) The fighting of hawks with each other.
3.
(Woolen Manuf.) A process of scouring cloth between rolls in a machine.






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"Crabbing" Quotes from Famous Books



... thought she ought to know. "Jimmy. You heard her? Now Macartney and I are both called James. But who ever made a Jimmy of him?" She was annoyed with him—the man seemed to suppose she could be pleased by crabbing James—and glad of Margery Dacre, a mermaid in sea-green, who swam in with apologies—due to Macartney's abhorrent eyeglass upon her. And then they all went in to their archumpelygo, where Crewdson and his ladies were waiting for them, ...
— Love and Lucy • Maurice Henry Hewlett



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