[Echoic: cf. creak, crick, crinkle, etc.] intr. To make a sound in which cricking and chinking blend. Hence Crinking ppl. a.
1860. Gosse, Rom. Nat. Hist., 174. The noisy cicadæ that … make the woods ring with their pertinacious crinking. Ibid. (ed. 7), 105. Those crinking merry-voiced denizens of our summer-fields.
