Crabs [noun]

Besides the water-crabs that we are most of us used to seeing and eating, there are several different kinds of land-crabs.

Meanwhile our young friends, having caught several crabs, suddenly noticed by the sun that it was getting late.

Old Crabs used to come offen, and consumed a power of wine and seagars at our house.

He had to gather fragments of wreck and other things to aid him in his labour, and to search for crabs and crayfish for his food.

He is denominated the crab-dog, because he principally feeds upon crabs and other crustaceous animals.

He had no desire for crabs; to have eaten them now would have seemed to him like feeding upon human flesh.

We succeeded in taking an eel, a few crabs, and a small quantity of snails.

Before leaving to go in quest of crabs, he had ascertained that it had about six inches of water in the hold.

Yvon recognized the spot where he had so often gathered shells and chased the crabs to their holes when a child.

Men will combat about a disputed field or country as fiercely as dogs over a bone, or hermit crabs over a shell.