cronching

But then, there we were, sawing off one square after another, reminding ourselves between cronching mouthfuls that we really ought to throw them out already.

caramelized brown butter rice krispie treats | smitten kitchen 2007

As he sauntered along, he held his bludgeon in readiness while his keen eyes searched -- and presently he made out the cronching figures.

Kindred of the Dust 1918

Or on a Sunday afternoon, if I chanced to be at home, I heard the cronching of the snow made by the step of a long-headed farmer, who from far through the woods sought my house, to have a social "crack;" one of the few of his vocation who are "men on their farms;" who donned a frock instead of a professor's gown, and is as ready to extract the moral out of church or state as to haul a load of manure from his barn-yard.

Walden, or Life in the woods 1854

Or on a Sunday afternoon, if I chanced to be at home, I heard the cronching of the snow made by the step of a long-headed farmer, who from far through the woods sought my house, to have a social "crack"; one of the few of his vocation who are "men on their farms"; who donned a frock instead of a professor's gown, and is as ready to extract the moral out of church or state as to haul a load of manure from his barn-yard.

Walden~ Chapter 14 (historical) 1854

Or on a Sunday afternoon, if I chanced to be at home, I heard the cronching of the snow made by the step of a long-headed farmer, who from far through the woods sought my house, to have a social "crack"; one of the few of his vocation who are "men on their farms"; who donned a frock instead of a professor's gown, and is as ready to extract the moral out of church or state as to haul a load of manure from his barn-yard.

Walden Henry David Thoreau 1839