[f. as prec. + -ING2.]
I. That crinkles; see CRINKLE v. I.
1577. Harrison, Desc. Brit., I. xv. Manifold Water, so called bicause of the sundrie crinckling rills that it receiueth.
1621. Molle, Camerar. Liv. Libr., IV. ii. 227. Running with a crinkeling course as far as Lions.
1648. J. Beaumont, Psyche, IX. l. (1702), 127 (R.). Her legs are two faint crinckling Props.
II. Emitting sharp thin sounds.
1856. Mrs. Browning, Aur. Leigh, V. Poems VI. 191. All the rooms Were full of crinkling silks.
1865. Miss Mulock, Christian’s Mistake, 69. As she stepped with her light, firm tread across the crinkling snow.
1880. Webb, Goethe’s Faust, III. viii. 168. With the crinkling sand the floor to strow.
