A place where crabs are caught, kept, or sold; or the practice of catching crabs.
Formed by adding the -ery suffix to 'crab,' a suffix that means 'place where X happens' or 'the practice of X,' as in 'fishery' or 'bakery.'
The -ery suffix is incredibly useful—add it to almost any noun and you get a location or industry: 'crab' becomes 'crabbery,' 'fish' becomes 'fishery,' 'bake' becomes 'bakery'.
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