3. Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed author. "Crabbed eloquence." Chaucer. How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose. Milton.
4. Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting.
— Crab"bed*ly, adv.
— Crab"bed*ness, n.
CRABBER
Crab"ber (krb"br), n.
Defn: One who catches crabs.
CRABBING
Crab"bing, n.
1. The act or art of catching crabs.
2. (Falconry)
Defn: The foghting of hawks with each other.
3. (Woolem Manuf.)
Defn: A process of scouring clocth be