Meaning of crabling | Babel Free

Definitions

A small, young, or baby crab.

Examples

“The juvenile members of most of our seaside communities are much given to crab-fishing, and may be seen from early morn to evening late, dangling their legs over some convenient rock, sea-wall, or landing-steps, and with a piece of twine to which a dainty morsel of fish⟳ offal has been tied, doing their best to induce some greedy young crabling to grasp it with his nippers, [...]”

“This was, after all, the easiest kind of life a simple-minded crabling such as he could hope⟳ to achieve⟳, and so Galoo's words did well to play⟳ upon his fears. the sea-swindler went on to say⟳, giving the crabling a slight push⟳ to go.”

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