crabbed
/kɹæbd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.54 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Crowded together and difficult to read.
adj
Performed with one's aircraft pointed at an angle to the runway to compensate for a crosswind; performed with nonzero crab.
verb
simple past and past participle of crab
Example Sentences
- "[…]O, she is / Ten times more gentle than her father's crabb'd, / And he's composed of harshness."
- "A wrinkled crabbed man they picture thee, Old Winter, with a rugged beard as grey As the long moss upon the apple-tree; […]"
- "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."
- "The Ercoupe can't be cross-controlled, so it has to make a crabbed approach in a crosswind rather than using the sideslip technique."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: crabbed
Inflected Forms
more crabbed (comparative)
most crabbed (superlative)