crabbed vs hieroglyphic

crabbed

adj
  • Pointed at an angle to the runway during approach and landing to compensate for a crosswind. 

  • Cramped, bent. 

  • Bad-tempered or cantankerous. 

  • Crowded together and difficult to read. 

  • Performed with one's aircraft pointed at an angle to the runway to compensate for a crosswind; performed with nonzero crab. 

hieroglyphic

noun
  • Undecipherable handwriting or secret symbol. 

  • Any symbol used in this system; a hieroglyph. 

  • A writing system of ancient Egypt, Minoans, Maya and other civilizations, using pictorial symbols to represent individual sounds as a rebus 

adj
  • difficult to decipher 

  • of, relating to, or written with this system of symbols 

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