crab vs lobster
Definitions
noun
- decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
- a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body
- a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply
- a quarrelsome grouch
- the edible flesh of any of various crabs
verb
- scurry sideways like a crab
- fish for crab
- complain
- direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind
Examples
After Colette left he cleared his throat and looked through a newspaper, his long fingers scrabbling a bit at the pages.
Spider crabs stalked the seabed; wrasse, blennies, shannies and rockling darted over the reefs, and pollack wheeled overhead.
Convenience is, however, in all affairs of life, an execrable test of value.
Definitions
noun
- flesh of a lobster
- any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae
Examples
It takes about eight seconds for a pair of lobsters to copulate; it takes a lot longer to get them into the mood.
They spearfish & dive for lobster, but almost never fish with hook & line.
She pointed to a heap of insensate lobsters piled in a corner.
