different between crabber vs craber

English

Etymology 1

From crab (“crustacean having five pairs of legs”) +? -er.

Noun

crabber (plural crabbers)

1. A person who catches crabs.
   • 1989, National Fisherman (volumes 70-71, page 26)

     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.

2. (nautical) A boat used for catching crabs.
   • 1972, Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore

     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 […]

Translations

Etymology 2

From crab (“to be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault”) +? -er.

Noun

crabber (plural crabbers)

1. A person who finds fault or criticizes.

   Synonyms: criticizer; see also Thesaurus:complainer

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?e?b?(?)/

Noun

craber (plural crabers)

1. (archaic) The water rat.

   • the craber, which some call the water-rat […]

References

craber in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• bracer