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Meaning of நண்டு in English

  • One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.
  • The zodiacal constellation Cancer.
  • A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste.
  • A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
  • A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
  • A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
  • A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
  • A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
  • To make sour or morose; to embitter.
  • To beat with a crabstick.
  • To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.
  • Sour; rough; austere.
  • Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners.
  • Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; -- applied to things; as, a crabbed taste.
  • Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed author.
  • Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting.
  • One who catches crabs.
  • The act or art of catching crabs.
  • The fighting of hawks with each other.
  • A process of scouring cloth between rolls in a machine.
  • Somewhat sour or cross.
  • Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing.
  • The water rat.
  • To move sidewise, as a crab. [Jocular].
  • A stick, cane, or cudgel, made of the wood of the crab tree.
  • A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge.
  • A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age.
  • The neck or throat
  • The neck piece or scrag of mutton.
  • Alt. of Crayer
  • Any crustacean of the family Astacidae, resembling the lobster, but smaller, and found in fresh waters. Crawfishes are esteemed very delicate food both in Europe and America. The North American species are numerous and mostly belong to the genus Cambarus. The blind crawfish of the Mammoth Cave is Cambarus pellucidus. The common European species is Astacus fluviatilis.
  • See Crawfish.
  • An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders.
  • A crayon drawing.
  • A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
  • To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan.
  • of Crayon
  • Frequent; numerous.

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