crabbed
adj/kɹæbd/
Etymology From Middle English crabbed; equivalent to crab + -ed.
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Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
- […]O, she is / Ten times more gentle than her father's crabb'd, / And he's composed of harshness.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
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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; […]c. 1800, Robert Southey, Winter:
3
Of handwriting Crowded together and difficult to read.
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Aeronautics, Aerospace, Aviation, Business, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences Of an aircraft 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.
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Aeronautics, Aerospace, Aviation, Business, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences 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.
- The Ercoupe can't be cross-controlled, so it has to make a crabbed approach in a crosswind rather than using the sideslip technique.
- Derived terms
- crabbedly, crabbedness, uncrabbed