'Fighting crab' definitions:

Definition of 'Fighting crab'

From: GCIDE
  • Fighting \Fight"ing\, a.
  • 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]

Definition of 'fighting crab'

From: GCIDE
  • Fiddler \Fid"dler\, n. [AS. fi[eth]elere.]
  • 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]