Also 6 krink. [possibly a survival of OE. crincan to contract or draw oneself together in a bent form (see CRANK sb.1), but more prob. repr. an earlier *crenk:—krankjan, causal deriv. of crincan. In mod. use, however, perh. formed anew from crinkle.] Hence Crinking vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1. trans. To bend or twist; to form into furrows or wrinkles; to crinkle. dial.
1821. Clare, Vill. Minstr., II. 93. As the wakening wind … o’er the water crink’d the curdled wave.
1888. Sheffield Gloss., Crink, to twist, or wrench painfully. ‘I’ve crinked my neck.’… When a man bends a piece of iron by hammering it he is said to crink it.
† 2. intr. (fig.) To use tortuous shifts or sleights.
1583. Golding, Calvin on Deut., xxxix. 231. If wee vse any craftinesse or krinking. Ibid., 234. He which thinketh to further himselfe by his crinking, pilling and deceyuing.
