crankle

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English

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Etymology

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From crank +‎ -le. Coined by Michael Drayton in 1596. According to the Poly-Olbion project, "Drayton probably derived ‘crankling’ from ‘crank’, a word which had its first recorded usage in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis (1594) where it describes a hare which ‘crankes and crosses with a thousand doubles’."

Pronunciation

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Noun

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crankle (plural crankles)

  1. A bend, twist or crinkle.

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Verb

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crankle (third-person singular simple present crankles, present participle crankling, simple past and past participle crankled)

  1. To bend, turn, or wind.
  2. To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.
    • 1708, John Philips, Cyder:
      Old Vaga's stream [] drew her humid train aslope, / Crankling her banks.

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