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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The tree which bears crabs, or crab-apples.
  • Made of the wood of the crab. The wood is used principally by millwrights for the teeth of wheels.
  • noun See bitter-bark, 1.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • See under crab.

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