English Dictionary

crabbed

IPA（発音記号）

/kɹæbd/

形容詞

筆跡 航空機 前置詞句

Bad-tempered or cantankerous. / Cramped, bent. / (of handwriting) Crowded together and difficult to read.

日本語の意味

短気で気難しい、すねた、むっつりした / 狭く曲がった、屈折した状態 / 筆跡が密集していて読みづらい

The crabbed librarian scolded the students for whispering.

不機嫌で気難しい図書館員は、生徒たちがささやいているのを叱った。

意味（1）

Bad-tempered or cantankerous.

[…]O, she is / Ten times more gentle than her father's crabb'd, / And he's composed of harshness.

意味（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; […]

意味（3）

(of handwriting) Crowded together and difficult to read.

意味（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.

意味（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.

more crabbed （ comparative ）

most crabbed （ superlative ）