crankle

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The first stage of the £1.6 million restoration began with Wessex Archaelogy carrying out archaeological recording and investigation of the gazebo, the causeway walls and the undulating 'crinkle-crankle' - or serpentine - wall.

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  1. To bend, wind, or turn, as a stream. Serpeggiare, … to go winding or crankling in and out. Florio. Meander, who is said so intricate to be, Hath not so many turns nor crankling nooks as she [the river Wye]. Drayton, Polyolbion, vii. 198.
  2. To break into bends, turns, or angles; crinkle. Old Vaga's stream, Forc'd by the sudden shock, her wonted track Forsook, and drew her humid train aslope, Crankling her banks. J. Philips, Cider, i.
  3. A bend or turn; a crinkle; an angular prominence.
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  • The first stage of the £1.6 million restoration began with Wessex Archaelogy carrying out archaeological recording and investigation of the gazebo, the causeway walls and the undulating 'crinkle-crankle' - or serpentine - wall. —  getreading - Reading Post - RSS feed
  • o 'heaven, as I thoucht them, whan they war only the sma' crinkle-crankle convolutions o 'my cerebral dome-�a puir heaven for a man to bide in! —  Alec Forbes of Howglen
 

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  1. Freq. of crank, v. Cf. crinkle.
  2. from crankle, v.
  3. Cf. crank, adjective, crank, a., and cranky.
 

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