crabbe

Inherited from Old English crabba, from Proto-Germanic *krabbô.

• crabb, crab

• IPA^(key): /ˈkrab(ə)/

crabbe (plural crabbes or crabben)

1. crab (kind of crustacean)
2. A crayfish, lobster or similar crustacean.
3. (astronomy) Cancer (constellation)

• crabbed

• English: crab
• Scots: crab, craib

• “crab(be (n.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-07.

Of Germanic origin, plausibly from North Germanic, cognate with Swedish dialect scrabba.

• crab, scrabbe

• IPA^(key): /ˈkrab(ə)/, /ˈskrab(ə)/

crabbe (plural crabbes or crabben)

1. A crabapple tree.
2. A crabapple fruit.

• English: crab, scrab
• Scots: scrab

• “crab(be (n.(2))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-07.
• “scrabbe (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-07.

• crabe (Jersey)

Borrowed from Old Norse krabbi.

crabbe f (plural crabbes)

1. (Guernsey) crab