单词 | crankling |
释义 | ▪ I. crankling, vbl. n.|ˈkræŋklɪŋ| [f. crankle v. + -ing1.] A twisting or winding in and out.
1598Florio, Catapecchie..cranklings, turnings in and out. 1611Cotgr., Les replis d'une Riuiere, the manifold cranklings and wriglings made in and out by a Riuer in its course. 1835Beckford 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.
1603Drayton Bar. Wars vi. xlviii, Along the crankling Path. 1612― Poly-olb. vii. 105 Meander..Hath not so many turnes, nor crankling nookes as shee. 1656W. D. tr. Comenius' Gate Lat. Unl. ⁋46 Amnis, or a crankling brook. 1850H. Coleridge Poems II. 243 Her crankling bays and sinuous lochs. 1881Leicestersh. Gloss., Crankling, sinuous; twisting in and out. |

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