crabbed

From Middle English crabbed; equivalent to crab +‎ -ed.

• IPA^(key): /kɹæbd/
• Rhymes: -æbd

crabbed (comparative more crabbed, superlative most crabbed)

1. 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.

2. 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; […]

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.

   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.

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.

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

• crabbedly
• crabbedness
• uncrabbed

crabbed

1. simple past and past participle of crab

• crabbid, crabbyd, crabbede

From crabbe +‎ -ed.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkrabid/, /ˈkrabɛd/

crabbed

1. immoral, backwards, savage, rapacious
2. crabbed, ill-tempered, vengeful
3. (rare) Moving in reverse.

• crabbednes
• crabbidly

• English: crabbed
• Scots: crabbit

• “crabbed, ppl.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-07.