Crab (A)
.An ill-tempered fellow; sour as a crab-apple.
To catch a crab, in rowing. (See Catch a Crab.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.