crabber en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From crab (“crustacean having five pairs of legs”) + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (relational noun suffix).
Meanings
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A person who catches crabs.
Many shrimpers complain that the crabbers place their traps too close together and that they can't go between the traps without snagging their nets.
1989, National Fisherman, volumes 70-71, page 26:
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A boat used for catching crabs.
In the bright haze of morning they came into Hort Harbor, where a hundred craft were moored or setting forth: fishermen's boats, crabbers, trawlers, trading-ships, two galleys of twenty oars […]
1972, Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore:It is standard practice for search and rescue authorities to ask other vessels in the area to assist. Usually, this is done. The weather on the night of 31 December was too atrocious, and when at 11pm the Coast Guard asked the crabber Ruff & Reddy to head to the scene, its skipper refused, as a skipper has a right to do if he believes conditions to be too treacherous.
2025 October 21, Rose George, “‘I knew in my head we were dying’: the last voyage of the Scandies Rose”, in The Guardian:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| crabbers | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (9)
fi ravustaja (a person who catches crabs) · pl krabołów (a person who catches crabs) · ru краболо́в (a boat used for catching crabs) · pl krabołów (a boat used for catching crabs) · ru краболо́в (a person who catches crabs) · fi ravustusalus (a boat used for catching crabs) · fr crabier (a person who catches crabs) · cmn 捕蟹人 (a person who catches crabs) · fi ravunpyyntialus (a boat used for catching crabs)