▪ I. crankling, vbl. n.
(ˈkræŋklɪŋ)
[f. crankle v. + -ing1.]
A twisting or winding in and out.
| 1598 Florio, Catapecchie..cranklings, turnings in and out. 1611 Cotgr., Les replis d'une Riuiere, the manifold cranklings and wriglings made in and out by a Riuer in its course. 1835 Beckford Recoll. 137 Saxon crinklings and cranklings are bad enough..the Moorish horse-shoe-like deviations from beautiful curves, little better. |
▪ II. ˈcrankling, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
Twisting or winding in and out.
| 1603 Drayton Bar. Wars vi. xlviii, Along the crankling Path. 1612 ― Poly-olb. vii. 105 Meander..Hath not so many turnes, nor crankling nookes as shee. 1656 W. D. tr. Comenius' Gate Lat. Unl. ¶46 Amnis, or a crankling brook. 1850 H. Coleridge Poems II. 243 Her crankling bays and sinuous lochs. 1881 Leicestersh. Gloss., Crankling, sinuous; twisting in and out. |