crankle
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of crankle
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I find that the verb is unravelled as “bend, wind, turn, twist, wind in and out, crankle, crinkle.”
From Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war by Lind-af-Hageby, L. (Lizzy)
Neyther went those siluer pipes straight, but by many edged vnsundred writhings, & crankled wandrings aside strayed from bough to bough into an hundred throates.
From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Gosse, Edmund
How I have crankled and crinkled over wrongs and horrors 111 which I have discovered on my little path!
From Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war by Lind-af-Hageby, L. (Lizzy)
Silently, they paddled along, sheltered from observation by the little wooded promontory and following as nearly as possible the crankling river as it indented into the land.
From Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick by Savage, Mrs. William T.
The unnatural and crankling proceeding of his trying to woo a German girl was smoothed away into a genial indifference.
From Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life by Henry, Stuart Oliver
No crank can see his crankiness at the time of crankling, though sometimes he sees it afterwards.
From Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war by Lind-af-Hageby, L. (Lizzy)
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