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I. The action of the verb CRINKLE; twisting to and fro; wrinkling, crumpling, etc. Also concr.
1577. Harrison, Desc. Britaine, I. xiv. in Holinshed. The Wyuer … no riuer in England … fetcheth more or halfe so many windlesses and crinklings.
1602. 2nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass., III. iv. (Arb.), 46. The curious crinkling of a silke stocking.
1709. W. King, Art of Cookery, 138. Who cares for all the crinkling of the pye?
1891. Daily News, 20 May, 3/1. Much of the crêpon is crinkled like the surface of cream…. Sometimes this crinkling runs in stripes.
II. The emitting of sharp thin sounds.
1880. 7th Rep. Topog. Surv. Adirondack Region, 157. The sharp ‘crinkling’ of the runners of the large hand-sleds.
