crabbed.
Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
Meaning & usage
Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
Cramped, bent.
Crowded together and difficult to read.
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.
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.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English crabbed; equivalent to crab + -ed.
simple past and past participle of crab
Where this word comes from
From Middle English crabbed; equivalent to crab + -ed.
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