1. Crab-like; † with sidelong gait (obs.)
1583. Stanyhurst, Æneis, III. (Arb.), 84. It will be saulfer too passe thee countrie Pachynus, With leasure lingring, and far streicts crabbye to circle.
1886. R. C. Leslie, Sea-painter’s Log, 20. Some old fisherman’s crabby paw dodging round the bottom of a crab-pot.
2. Abounding in crabs.
1622. R. Hawkins, Voy. S. Sea (1847), 128. Which after we called Crabby cove…. For that all the water was full of a small kinde of redd crabbes.
