different between crabber vs drabber

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

drab +? -er

Adjective

drabber

1. comparative form of drab: more drab

Noun

drabber (plural drabbers)

1. A hair product that works against natural colour to make the hair more drab.
2. (obsolete) One who associates with drabs; a wencher.
   • 1632, Philip Massinger, The City Madam

     I well know him
     For a most insatiate drabber . He hath given,
     Before he spent his own estate , which was
     Nothing to the huge mass he's now possess'd of,
     A hundred pound a leap

References

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