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Crabbed

//kɹæbd// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Bad-tempered or cantankerous.

    "[…]O, she is / Ten times more gentle than her father's crabb'd, / And he's composed of harshness."

  2. 2
    Cramped, bent.

    "A wrinkled crabbed man they picture thee, Old Winter, with a rugged beard as grey As the long moss upon the apple-tree; […]"

  3. 3
    Crowded together and difficult to read.
  4. 4
    Pointed at an angle to the runway during approach and landing to compensate for a crosswind.

    "Unlike most aircraft, the B-52's fully-steerable landing gear allows it to land crabbed and stay crabbed throughout rollout without destroying its tires."

  5. 5
    Performed with one's aircraft pointed at an angle to the runway to compensate for a crosswind; performed with nonzero crab.

    "The Ercoupe can't be cross-controlled, so it has to make a crabbed approach in a crosswind rather than using the sideslip technique."

Adjective
  1. 1
    annoyed and irritable wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of crab form-of, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English crabbed; equivalent to crab + -ed.

Etymology 2

From Middle English crabbed; equivalent to crab + -ed.

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