| 释义 |
ˈsea-crab
[crab n.1]
1. A marine crab, as distinguished from a river- or land-crab.
1601Holland Pliny xxxii. x. II. 449 The ashes of the Sea-crab and Scolopendre both. 1756P. Browne Jamaica (1789) 421 The common Sea-Crab or Sherigo. This species is very common in all the harbours of Jamaica. 1860Wraxall Life in Sea vi. 142 The Portunus, or real Sea-crab.
†b. In allusions. Obs.
1604Fr. Hubburd's Tales in Middleton's Wks. (Bullen) VIII. 95 One amongst them..likened me to a sea-crab, because I went all of one side. 1636Featly Clavis Myst. ix. 116 In which there is no more true controversie in point of law, than head in a sea-crab.
†2.
a. Applied jocularly to a boatman. Obs.
1609Dekker Gull's Horn-bk. vii. Wks. (Grosart) II. 252 No, your Oares are your onely Sea-crabs, boord them, and take heed you neuer go twice together with one paire.
†b. slang. A sailor. Obs.
1785in Grose Dict. Vulgar T.
†3. A crab (n.1 7) used at sea. Obs.
1689Patent Office No. 262 A new Invencion or Sea-Crabbe for working in the Sea for Fishing and taking vp of Shipps. |