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 crabbing
 煮呢

 Crab·bing, 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
      See crab

 crab
      n 1: decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened
           carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax
           and pincers
      2: a quarrelsome grouch [syn: crabby person]
      3: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer
         [syn: Cancer]
      4: the fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from
         about June 21 to July 22 [syn: Cancer, Cancer the Crab]
      5: the edible flesh of any of various crabs [syn: crabmeat]
      6: infests the pubic region of the human body [syn: crab louse,
          pubic louse, Phthirius pubis]
      7: a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too
         deeply; "he caught a crab and lost the race"
      v 1: direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind
      2: scurry sideways like a crab
      3: fish for crab
      4: complain; "What was he hollering about?" [syn: gripe, grouse,
          beef, squawk, bellyache, holler]
      [also: crabbing, crabbed]