Crabbed

Quick meaning: Crabbed is an adjective meaning Bad-tempered or cantankerous.

Meaning

Bad-tempered or cantankerous.

More Meanings

1. Cramped, bent.
2. (of handwriting) Crowded together and difficult to read.
3. (aviation, of an aircraft) Pointed at an angle to the runway during approach and landing to compensate for a crosswind.
4. simple past and past participle of crab
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.

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; […]

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

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.

Synonyms for crabbed

Depending on context, synonyms include cross, grumpy, grouchy, crabby, ill-natured, ill-tempered.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include grouchy, crabby, grumpy, bad-tempered, ill-natured, ill-tempered.

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