[f. CRAB sb.1: cf. F. crabier.]
1. An occasional book-name for a small species of heron, Ardetta minuta, the Little Bittern.
2. A scombroid fish, Elacate canada, found on the North American shores of the Atlantic Ocean.
1842. De Kay, Zool. N. York, IV. Fishes 114. The Crab-eater … was captured in a seine in the harbor of Boston, and placed in a car with other fish.
