craunch
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of craunch
First recorded in 1625–35; variant of cranch
Example Sentences
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Now they craunch it, and crowd snuffling along through the corn-hills!
From Summerfield or, Life on a Farm by Day Kellogg Lee
Indeed, not a sound was to be heard, except the creak and craunch of the dry snow under our feet.
From Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
In the studios we say croquer, craunch, nibble, for sketching," interposed Mistigris, with an insinuating air, "and we are always wanting to croquer beautiful heads.
From A Start in Life by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
My moccasins made no noise until I stepped on the gravel; but, at the craunch of the pebbles, the lady looked around and then came hastily towards me across the grass.
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Seeing him draw nigh, burying his broad wheels in the oppressed soil—I, the prostrate votary—felt beforehand the annihilating craunch.
From Villette by Charlotte Brontë
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