Crabbed

/kɹæbd/ · adjective

Meaning

Bad-tempered or cantankerous..

Definitions by Sense

1. Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
2. Cramped, bent.
3. (of handwriting) Crowded together and difficult to read.
4. (aviation, of an aircraft) Pointed at an angle to the runway during approach and landing to compensate for a crosswind.
5. (aviation, of an approach and landing) Performed with one's aircraft pointed at an angle to the runway to compensate for a crosswind; performed with nonzero crab.
6. simple past and past participle of crab

Example Sentences

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

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

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.

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

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• more crabbed
• most crabbed

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