Crab (A).
An ill-tempered fellow; sour as a crab-apple.
To catch a crab, in rowing. (See Catch a Crab.)
An ill-tempered fellow; sour as a crab-apple.
To catch a crab, in rowing. (See Catch a Crab.)
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.