Cabling vs Crabling - What's the difference?
cabling | crabling |
A collection of cables.
(architecture) The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds, or rounded mouldings, which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting.
A small, young, or baby crab.
*1867 , William Barry Lord, Crab, shrimp, and lobster lore :
*2009 , R. Y. Gheith, The Complete Isaac Trilogy :
As nouns the difference between cabling and crabling
is that cabling is a collection of cables while crabling is a small, young, or baby crab.As a verb cabling
is .cabling
English
Noun
- We have to redo all this cabling for the network and this time remember which wire goes where.
Verb
(head)crabling
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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, [...]
- This was, after all, the easiest kind of life a simple-minded crabling' such as he could hope to achieve, and so Galoo's words did well to play upon his fears. the sea-swindler went on to say, giving the ' crabling a slight push to go.