crankle means A bend, twist or crinkle.
crankle is pronounced /ˈkɹæŋkəl/.
Etymology
From crank + -le.
Coined by Michael Drayton in 1596. According to the Poly-Olbion project, "Drayton probably derived ‘crankling’ from ‘crank’, a word which had its first recorded usage in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis (1594) where it describes a hare which ‘crankes and crosses with a thousand doubles’."
noun
- A bend, twist or crinkle.
verb
- To bend, turn, or wind.e.g.“Meander, who is said so intricate to bee,
Hath not so many turnes, nor crankling nookes as shee.”
- To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.e.g.“Old Vaga's stream […] drew her humid train aslope, / Crankling her banks.”
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