Crankling ppl. a.

[f. as prec. + -ING².] Twisting or winding in and out.

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1603. Drayton, Bar. Wars, VI. xlviii. Along the crankling Path. Ibid. (1612), Poly-olb., vii. 105. Meander … Hath not so many turnes, nor crankling nookes as shee.

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1656. W. D., trans., Comenius’ Gate Lat. Unl., ¶ 46. Amnis, or a crankling brook.

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1850. H. Coleridge, Poems, II. 243. Her crankling bays and sinuous lochs.

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1881. Leicestersh. Gloss., Crankling, sinuous; twisting in and out.

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