Definition of Crabbing

1. n. The act or art of catching crabs.

Definition of Crabbing

1. Verb. (present participle of crab) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Crabbing

1. crab [v] - See also: crab

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crabbing

crab spiders
crab yaws
crabapple
crabapple jelly
crabapples
crabbed
crabbedly
crabbedness
crabbednesses
crabber
crabbers
crabbier
crabbiest
crabbily
crabbiness
crabbing (current term)
crabbish
crabbit
crabburger
crabby
crabby person
crabcake
crabcakes
crabeater
crabeater seal
crabeaters
craber
crabers
crabfaced

Literary usage of Crabbing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Adventure Guide to the Pacific Northwest by Don Young, Marjorie Young (1999)
"On the Water Clam-Digging, crabbing & Fishing from Shore Outdoor adventures often have an outstanding side-benefit: you can eat the birds or game that you ..."

2. Woollen and Worsted Cloth Manufacture: Being a Practical Treatise for the by Roberts Beaumont (1890)
"Boiling and crabbing—237. Pressing—238. Doeskin Finish—239. Velvet Finish—240. Dry Finish—241. Scotch and Melton Finish—242. Worsted Finish. 228. ..."

3. The Chefs-d'oeuvre by Victor Champier, William Walton, André Saglio (1902)
"crabbing "To live in Sweden, on hills and in valleys, on lakes, in woods, in bowers of green leaves: that is an ideal existence, lhat is a life to enjoy ..."

4. Annals of a Fishing Village by Denham Jordan, Jean Allan Owen (1892)
"A crabbing EXPEDITION. ELEVEN o'clock had boomed out from the old tower in the ancient market - place of a sleepy old fishing town situated in the midst of ..."

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