What is "crabbing"

Crabbing \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.

n. 1 The act or art of catching crabs. 2 (context falconry English) The fighting of hawks with each other. 3 (context wool manufacture English) A process of scouring cloth beween rolls in a machine. vb. (present participle of crab English)

See crab

1. v. 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]

5. [also: crabbing, crabbed]

1. n. 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"

8. [also: crabbing, crabbed]