crumpled, ppl. a.
(ˈkrʌmp(ə)ld)
[In form, f. crumple v. + -ed; but found much earlier than any finite part of the verb.]
1. Bent together by compression, incurved, crooked (esp. of parts of the body bent by malformation or disease).
| a 1300 Cursor M. 8087 (Cott.) Crumpled knes [T. crompled knees] and boce on bak. c 1440 Bone Flor. 1979 In the palsye can he schake, And was crompylde and crokyd therto. 1647 H. More Song of Soul i. iii. l, For that old crumpled wight gan go upstraight. |
2. Bent spirally, curled. Hence crumpled-horn a.
| 14.. Prose Legends in Anglia VIII. 135 Also seint Paul seiþ not in crumpled [Wyclif 1 Tim. ii. 9 writhen] lokkys or golde. 1583 Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 50 Their tayls with croompled knot twisting. ? a 1750 Nursery rime ‘House that Jack Built’, This is the Cow with the crumpled Horn, that tossed the Dog. 1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 89 Horns short and generally curled, or what some call crumpled horn. 1886 W. G. Wood-Martin, Lake Dwellings Irel. i. iv. 77 Specimens of the crania of four distinct breeds..the straight-horn..the crumpled-horn..the short-horn..the hornless. |
3. Crushed into creases and folds; crushed out of shape, out of smoothness or tidiness. a. Applied to a wrinkled, creased, or ‘tumbled’ condition of things flexible, as cloth, paper.
| 1535 Coverdale Job vii. 5 My skynne is wythered and crompled together. 1664 Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 203 Break, and pull off all crumpl'd dry'd Leaves. 166. Pepys Diary (1879), IV. 179 Finding the cloth laid, and much crumpled..I grew angry. 1877 W. Thomson Voy. Challenger I. iii. 192 The strong brass cylinder..was found collapsed and crumpled like a piece of paper. 1888 A. K. Green Behind Closed Doors ii, Mrs. A. took a small and crumpled note out of her pocket. |
b. Applied to strata crushed into folds by lateral pressure; contorted.
| 1854 Hooker Himal. Jrnls. I. xi. 251 Granite appeared in large veins in the crumpled gneiss. 1862 Dana Man. Geol. 650 Crumpled or folded beds of clay. |
4. Wrinkled, marked with lines and furrows, such as are caused by compression.
| 1577 Googe Heresbach's Husb. ii. (1586) 56 The second sort with the croompled leafe. 1578 Lyte Dodoens i. xxix. 41 Medesweete..hath leaues..crompled, and wrinckled. 1688 R. Holme Armoury ii. 64/2 The Crumpled Plantan is a round crumpled Leaf. 1870 Morris Earthly Par. I. i. 400 The trembling poppies shed..their crumpled leaves. |
b. Of hair. (Cf. crumpling vbl. n.)
| 1872 Miss Thackeray Old Kensington ii. (ed. 2) 7 Dolly's..crumpled bronze hair. |