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Crab (Verb)

Fish for crab.

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities.

She carefully lowered the trap into the water to crab for dinner.
The early morning was the best time to crab off the coast.
He spent the day crabbing on the pier, waiting for a big catch.
After weeks of practice, she had finally mastered how to crab in shallow waters.
That summer, we went crabbing together as a family every weekend.

Scurry sideways like a crab.

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming.

The injured soldier crabbed across the battlefield to reach cover.
She saw the little kid crab across the floor, laughing as he played.
The robot crabbed sideways across the beach, avoiding obstacles along the way.
As the earthquake hit, people crabbed to safety under the tables and chairs.
The emergency responder had to crab through the narrow space to reach the trapped person.

Complain; "What was he hollering about?".

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.

She started to crab about the service as soon as we sat down at the restaurant.
My coworker is always going to crab about the workload, but never offers a solution.
The neighbors were told to quiet down after they began to crab about the noise from the party.
His habit of crabbing about the government has become really annoying.
He spent the whole night crabbing about his job, and I was getting tired of listening.

Direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind.

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming.

The pilot crabbed the aircraft into the strong crosswind to maintain runway alignment.
To counter the severe wind, the pilot was forced to crab the plane significantly to the left.
Air traffic controllers instruct pilots to crab their planes as necessary to compensate for crosswind effects during landing.
In crosswind landings, pilots must know how to crab the aircraft effectively to avoid drift.
When the aircraft is crabbed correctly, the pilot can straighten it out just before touchdown.