to catch crayfish
Any of numerous freshwater decapod crustaceans in superfamily Astacoidea or Parastacoidea, resembling the related lobster but usually much smaller.
A rock lobster (family Palinuridae).
The species Thenus orientalis of the slipper lobster family (Scyllaridae).
A freshwater crustacean (family Cambaridae), sometimes used as an inexpensive seafood or as fish bait.
A freshwater crayfish (family Parastacidae), such as the gilgie, marron, or yabby.
to hold using a crimp
To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
To bend or mold leather into shape.
To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
To pinch and hold; to seize.
One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
A small hold with little surface area.
The natural curliness of wool fibres.
Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
A grip on such a hold.
A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.