crabber
English
Etymology 1
From crab (“crustacean having five pairs of legs”) + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (relational noun suffix).
Noun
crabber (plural crabbers)
- A person who catches crabs.
- 1989, National Fisherman (volumes 70-71, page 26)
- Many shrimpers complain that the crabbers place their traps too close together and that they can't go between the traps without snagging their nets.
- 1989, National Fisherman (volumes 70-71, page 26)
- (nautical) A boat used for catching crabs.
- 1972, Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
- In the bright haze of morning they came into Hort Harbor, where a hundred craft were moored or setting forth: fishermen's boats, crabbers, trawlers, trading-ships, two galleys of twenty oars […]
- 1972, Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
Translations
a person who catches crabs
Noun
crabber (plural crabbers)
- A person who finds fault or criticizes.
- 1936, Josephine Tey, A Shilling for Candles, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, published 1998, →ISBN, page 103:
- There were one or two crabbers, of course—people who wanted his job—but no one paid any attention to the likes of them.
- Synonyms: criticizer; see also Thesaurus:complainer
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