These are the meanings of the letters CUBRA when you unscramble them.
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- Crab (a.)
A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
- Crab (a.)
A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste.
- Crab (a.)
A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
- Crab (a.)
A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
- Crab (a.)
A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
- Crab (a.)
A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
- Crab (a.)
Sour; rough; austere.
- Crab (n.)
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.
- Crab (n.)
The zodiacal constellation Cancer.
- Crab (v. i.)
To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.
- Crab (v. t.)
To beat with a crabstick.
- Crab (v. t.)
To make sour or morose; to embitter.
- Curb (n.)
A curbstone.
- Curb (n.)
A frame or wall round the mouth of a well; also, a frame within a well to prevent the earth caving in.
- Curb (n.)
A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness.
- Curb (n.)
An assemblage of three or more pieces of timber, or a metal member, forming a frame around an opening, and serving to maintain the integrity of that opening; also, a ring of stone serving a similar purpose, as at the eye of a dome.
- Curb (n.)
That which curbs, restrains, or subdues; a check or hindrance; esp., a chain or strap attached to the upper part of the branches of a bit, and capable of being drawn tightly against the lower jaw of the horse.
- Curb (v. i.)
To bend; to crouch; to cringe.
- Curb (v. t.)
To bend or curve
- Curb (v. t.)
To furnish wich a curb, as a well; also, to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
- Curb (v. t.)
To guide and manage, or restrain, as with a curb; to bend to one's will; to subject; to subdue; to restrain; to confine; to keep in check.