cric

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From the ceiling resounded at intervals the monotonous cric-cric of a wood-borer gnawing the beams with incessant toil which passed unheeded during the day.

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  1. In a lamp, an inflecting ring on the burner, curved inward and serving to condense the flame. E. H. Knight.

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  • Also considering the fact that both cric reasoning and FIJ's are now not the major constituent of the english section ...
  • And the grand woods thou sawest in their primitive and inviolate beauty, as if fresh from the Creator's touch in the morning of the world, are passing away; the secular trees are being converted into charcoal, or sawn into timber for the boat-builders: thou shouldst see two hundred men pulling some forest giant down to the sea upon the two-wheeled screaming thing they call a "devil" (_yon diabe cric-crac!--cric-crac!--all chanting together Soh-soh!--yaďe-yah! —  Two Years in the French West Indies
  • "A turn of the hand, cric, crac, and it's all over, no one there." —  Les Misérables
  • Et sa tête faisait cric, crac, —  The Tales of Hoffmann Les contes d'Hoffmann
  • Then comes the cric-crac-cric-crac, sewing machine-like hammering of our mitrailleuses. —  The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915
 

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  1. French cric, a screw-jack. Cf. crick.
 

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