[f. prec., or dim. of CRANK sb.2] A bend, twist, winding; a curve or angular prominence. See also CRINKLE-CRANKLE.
1598. Florio, Tortuoso, crooked, winding, full of crinkles and crankles.
1755. Johnson, Crankles, inequalities; angular prominences.
1822. Lamb, Elia, Old Actors. The accursed Verulam buildings had not encroached upon all the east side of them, cutting out delicate green crankles.
1845. Talfourd, Vac. Rambles, I. 128. It wound round one great crankle of the lake after another.
1881. W. Wilkins, Songs of Study, 209. Had the rack’s rough crankles my joints untied.
