What's the difference between crabber and drabber?

Crabber


Definition:

  • (n.) One who catches crabs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At Humacao, the average catch was 7 fish per fishermen (mostly tilapia, Tilapia mossambica, and tarpon, Megalops atlantica) and 13 crabs per crabber (all blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus).
  • (2) We report on a survey of fishermen and crabbers engaged in recreational and substance fishing in a Puerto Rican estuary (near Humacao), which has been declared a "Superfund site" because of suspected contamination by mercury, and at ecologically similar control sites.

Drabber


Definition:

  • (n.) One who associates with drabs; a wencher.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The world would be uninhabitable if all of us dreamt on the epic scale of Ali but it would be a considerably drabber place if one among us had not done so.
  • (2) Driving north along the pot-holed road to Sofia the villages get poorer and drabber.

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