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English
Etymology
From Middle English crabbed; equivalent to crab + -ed.
Pronunciation
Adjective
crabbed (comparative more crabbed, superlative most crabbed)
- Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :[…] O, she is / Ten times more gentle than her father's crabb'd, / And he's composed of harshness.
- Cramped, bent.
c. 1800, Robert Southey, Winter:A wrinkled crabbed man they picture thee,
Old Winter, with a rugged beard as grey
As the long moss upon the apple-tree; […]
- (of handwriting) Crowded together and difficult to read.
- (aviation, 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.
- (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.
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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Translations
bad-tempered or cantankerous
(of handwriting) crowded together and difficult to read
Verb
crabbed
- simple past and past participle of crab
Middle English
Etymology
From crabbe + -ed.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkrabid/, /ˈkrabɛd/
Adjective
crabbed
- immoral, backwards, savage, rapacious
- crabbed, ill-tempered, vengeful
- (rare) Moving in reverse.
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