Definition of "crabbed"

crabbed

/kɹæbd/

adjective
comparative more crabbed, superlative most crabbed
1. Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
  Quotations
  […] 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 1623, [Act III, scene i]
2. Cramped, bent.
  Quotations
  A wrinkled crabbed man they picture thee,Old Winter, with a rugged beard as greyAs the long moss upon the apple-tree; […]
  c. 1800, Robert Southey, Winter
3. (of handwriting) Crowded together and difficult to read.
4. (aviation, of an aircraft) Pointed at an angle to the runway during approach and landing to compensate for a crosswind.
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.
verb
1. simple past and past participle of crab