crankle

Meanings

Noun

• A bend, twist or crinkle.

Verb

• To bend, turn, or wind.
• To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.

Origin

• crank + -le.
• . According to the , "Drayton probably derived ‘crankling’ from ‘crank’, a word which had its first recorded usage in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis (1594) where it describes a hare which ‘crankes and crosses with a thousand doubles’."