Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To bend, wind, or turn, as a stream.
- To break into bends, turns, or angles; crinkle.
- Weak; shattered.
- noun A bend or turn; a crinkle; an angular prominence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To bend, turn, or wind.
- noun A bend or turn; a twist; a crinkle.
- transitive verb To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
bend ,twist orcrinkle - verb to bend or twist
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Examples
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An orchard would be a place to grow up, Palmer thought, an orchard heavy with apples and with espaliered pear-trees growing against a sun-warmed crinkle-crankle wall.
Sharpe's Siege Cornwell, Bernard 1987
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The historic Thamesside garden received a revamp thanks to a £1.6 million lottery grant which paid for repairs to the 19th century gazebo and the serpentine crinkle-crankle retaining wall.
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The historic Thamesside garden received a revamp thanks to a £1.6 million lottery grant which paid for repairs to the 19th century gazebo and the serpentine crinkle-crankle retaining wall.
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The first stage of the £1.6 million restoration began with Wessex Archaelogy carrying out archaeological recording and investigation of the gazebo, the causeway walls and the undulating 'crinkle-crankle' - or serpentine - wall.
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Poilibly Philips had the paflage in his mind, and borrowed from it the old word crankle.
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o 'heaven, as I thoucht them, whan they war only the sma' crinkle-crankle convolutions o 'my cerebral dome-�a puir heaven for a man to bide in!
Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864
yarb commented on the word crankle
Neyther went those siluer pipes straight, but by many edged vnsundred writhings, & crankled wandrings aside strayed from bough to bough into an hundred throates.
- Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller, 1594
April 14, 2010
jmjarmstrong commented on the word crankle
JM follows the intellectual path of the crankle.
July 8, 2010