crabbed

Adjective

crabbed (comparative more crabbed, superlative most crabbed)

1. Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
   • […]O, she is / Ten times more gentle than her father's crabb'd, / And he's composed of harshness.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...
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; […]c. 1800, Robert Southey, Winter
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.