crabbed

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. simple past and past participle of crab form-of,participle,past
形容词 adj.
  1. Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
    — […]O, she is / Ten times more gentle than her father's crabb'd, / And he's composed of harshness.
  2. 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; […]
  3. Crowded together and difficult to read.
  4. 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. 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.

词形变化

more crabbed comparative most crabbed superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
crabbedly crabbedness uncrabbed

词源

词源 1
From Middle English crabbed; equivalent to crab + -ed.
词源 2
From Middle English crabbed; equivalent to crab + -ed.
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