Definitions
a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply
Word origin
From Middle English crabbe, from Old English crabba (“crab; crayfish; cancer”), from Proto-West Germanic *krabbō, from Proto-Germanic *krabbô, from *krabbōną (“to scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *grobʰeh₂yéti (“to scratch”), a metathesised o-grade of *gerbʰ- (“to carve, scratch”). More at carve.
Used in a sentence
“Despite its name, the hermit crab is not a true crab!”
“She so obviously enjoyed every second of the concert that only the most stubborn crab could not have been warmed by her charm.”
“Although crabs themselves are an easily treated inconvenience, the patient and his partner(s) clearly run major STD risks.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“sidewalker”4 letters
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