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When writing is crabbed, the letters are small, squeezed together, and hard to read — as if the hand was tight or in a hurry. Teachers and people who read old letters use this word. It is not a chatting word; it sounds a bit like a book. The same word can also describe a person who is short-tempered, or language that is dense and hard to follow, but the picture students meet first is the messy little handwriting. It feels old-fashioned and a little sharp, not kind. You would not put it on a friendly note about someone’s diary.
（字跡）又小又擠、潦草難認
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
crabbedadj/kɹæbd/
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Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
- […]O, she is / Ten times more gentle than her father's crabb'd, / And he's composed of harshness.
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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; […]
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Crowded together and difficult to read.
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aeronauticsaerospaceaviationPointed 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.
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aeronauticsaerospaceaviationPerformed 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.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。