crabbed
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English crabbed; equivalent to crab + -ed.
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Adjective[edit]
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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
- […] 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[edit]
bad-tempered or cantankerous
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(of handwriting) crowded together and difficult to read
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Verb[edit]
crabbed
- simple past and past participle of crab
Middle English[edit]
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crabbed
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References[edit]
- “crabbed, ppl.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-07.
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