Crabs.  A losing throw to the main at hazard.

Crabbed. Sour, ill-tempered, difficult.

Crack.  A whore.

To crack.  To boast or brag; also to break.  I cracked his
  napper; I broke his head.

The crack, or all the crack.  The fashionable theme,
  the go.  The Crack Lay, of late is used, in the cant
  language, to signify the art and mystery of house-breaking.

Cracker.  Crust, sea biscuit, or ammunition loaf; also the
  backside.  Farting crackers; breeches.

CRACKISH.  Whorish.

Cracking tools.  Implements of house-breaking, such as
  a crow, a center bit, false keys, &c.

CRACKMANS.  Hedges.  The cull thought to have loped by
  breaking through the crackmans, but we fetched him back
  by a nope on the costard, which stopped his jaw; the man
  thought to have escaped by breaking through the hedge,
  but we brought him back by a great blow on the head,
  which laid him speechless.

Cracksman.  A house-breaker.  The kiddy is a clever
  cracksman; the young fellow is a very expert house-breaker.

Crag.  The neck.

Cramp rings.  Bolts, shackles, or fetters.  Cant.

Cramp words.  Sentence of death passed on a criminal by
  a judge.  He has just undergone the cramp word; sentence
  has just been passed on him.  Cant.

Crank.  Gin and water; also, brisk, pert.

Crank.  The falling sickness.  Cant.

To crash.  To kill.  Crash that cull; kill that fellow.  Cant.

Crashing cheats.  Teeth.

Craw THUMPERS.  Roman catholics, so called from their
  beating their breasts in the confession of their sins.  See
  brisket beater, and breast fleet.

Cream-pot love.  Such as young fellows pretend to
  dairymaids, to get cream and other good things from them.

To CREEME.  To slip or slide any thing into the hands of
  another.  Cant.

Creepers.  Gentlemen’s companions, lice.

Crew.  A knot or gang; also a boat or ship’s company.  The
  canting crew are thus divided into twenty-three orders,
  which see under the different words: 

  Men.

1 Rufflers 2 Upright Men 3 Hookers or Anglers 4 Rogues 5 Wild Rogues 6 Priggers of Prancers 7 Palliardes 8 Fraters 9 Jarkmen, or Patricoes 10 Fresh Water Mariners, or Whip Jackets 11 Drummerers 12 Drunken Tinkers 13 Swadders, or Pedlars 14 Abrams.

  Women.

1 Demanders for Glimmer or Fire 2 Bawdy Baskets 3 Morts 4 Autem Morts 5 Walking Morts 6 Doxies 7 Delles 8 Kinching Morts 9 Kinching Coes

Crib.  A house.  To crack a crib:  to break open a house.