crabling

Etymology

From crab + -ling.

crabling means A small, young, or baby crab. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.

noun

A small, young, or baby crab.“The juvenile members of most of our seaside communities are much given to crab-fishing, and may be seen from early morn to evening late, dangling their legs over some convenient rock, sea-wall, or landing-steps, and with a piece of twine to which a dainty morsel of fish offal has been tied, doing their best to induce some greedy young crabling to grasp it with his nippers, [...]”