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[ adjective ] (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

Synonyms

tender tippy crank

Used in print

(Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)

Beyond that misty gray of the rain , he saw the stretching hutment , low diminutive log_cabins , chinked with mud , with doorways a man would have_to crouch to get through , with roofs of tenting laid_over boughs or boards from hardtack boxes , or fence_rails , with cranky chimneys of sticks and dried mud .

Related terms

boat unstable

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[ adjective ] easily irritated or annoyed

Examples

"an incorrigibly fractious young man" "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

Related terms

ill-natured

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