fighting crab

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1.One who plays on a fiddle or violin. [1913 Webster]

2.(Zool.) A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle, hence the name; -- called also fiddler crab, calling crab, soldier crab, and fighting crab. [1913 Webster]

3.(Zool.) The common European sandpiper (Tringoides hypoleucus); -- so called because it continually oscillates its body. [1913 Webster]

Fiddler crab. (Zool.) See Fiddler, n., 2. [1913 Webster]

1.Qualified for war; fit for battle. [1913 Webster]

An host of fighting men.— 2 Chron. xxvi. 11.[1913 Webster]

2.Occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a fighting field. --Pope. [1913 Webster]

A fighting chance, one dependent upon the issue of a struggle. [Colloq.]

Fighting crab (Zool.), the fiddler crab.

Fighting fish (Zool.), a remarkably pugnacious East Indian fish (Betta pugnax), reared by the Siamese for spectacular fish fights. [1913 Webster]