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Definition: CRABBING |
CRABBINGNoun1. A process of scouring cloth between rolls in a machine. 2. The fighting of hawks with each other. 3. The act or art of catching crabs. |
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Industry | A process used in the worsted trade to set the fabric in a smooth flat state so that it will not cockle, pucker or wrinckle during subsequent wet processing. The fabric is treated in open width and under warp-way tension, in a hot or boiling aqueous medium, the tension being maintained while the fabric is cooling. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | ACE Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve. Traditional use of estuary areas includes crabbing. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
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| "CRABBING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "CRABBING" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 57.14% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 28.57% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "CRABBING": go crabbing. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "CRABBING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 侧航. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | krabning, køre sidelæns, dekatering. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kreftengang. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | märkäsikillys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | crabbing, marche en crabe, décatissage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Crabbing, Ecken (corners, nooks), Dekatieren. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δεκάτισμα, ? (flame arresting, rocker, to bonderize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zsírtalanítás (degreasing), rögzítés (anchorage, fastening, fixation, fixing, lashing, locking, setting, stabilization), kígyózó mozgás (sinuous movement), elégedetlenkedés (bitch, bitching, grumbling, repining), avatás (impregnation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | crabbing, marcia di sbieco (sideways running), decatissaggio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | abbingcray fixação em húmido, decatissagem. (various references) crabbing, prensado (pressing), marcha en esviaje. (various references) krabbning, dekatering. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"CRABBING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Brabbin, Cabbing, Caobang, Chabang, crabing, Cribbin, scrabbing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "CRABBING" (pronounced 'Crab"bing'): Slabbing. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-b-c-g-i-n-r" | |
-1 letter: barbing, bracing, cabbing. | |
-2 letters: arcing, baring, bicarb, caring, rabbin, racing. | |
-3 letters: acing, bairn, baric, brain, bring, cabin, cairn, cigar, garni, grain, naric, rabbi, rabic. | |
-4 letters: abri, agin, airn, bang, bani, barb, barn, brag, bran, brig, brin, cain, carb, carn, crab, crag, crib, gain, garb, girn, gnar, grab, gran, grin, narc, ragi, rain, rang, rani. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-b-c-g-i-n-r" | |
+2 letters: barbecuing, clabbering, scrabbling. | |
+3 letters: scabbarding. | |
+4 letters: backbreaking, blackbirding. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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