crabbed

adjective5

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
2. •
   Crowded together and difficult to read.
3. •
   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; […] — 1800
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.