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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To crush or crunch with the teeth.
  2. v. To strike heavily with a crunching sound.
  3. v. To make a crunching sound, especially in walking over snow.
  4. n. A crunching sound.
  5. n. The sound of an exploding shell.
  6. n. A heavy blow.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Crooked; bent.
  2. n. A deformed or crooked person.
  3. To bend; crook.
  4. To be out of temper.
  5. To become perverted or corrupt.
  6. n. The cramp.
  7. To make a crunching noise, as in eating what is hard and brittle; emit a creaking sound, as snow when crushed under the feet; crunch.
  8. Brittle; crusty; dry-baked; crisp.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. UK, Scotland, dialect Hard or crusty; dry baked
  2. adj. obsolete crooked; bent
  3. n. The sound of a muffled explosion.
  4. v. intransitive To produce such a sound.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. obsolete Crooked; bent.
  2. adj. Prov. Eng. & Scot. Hard or crusty; dry baked.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. bombard with heavy shells
  2. v. explode heavily or with a loud dull noise
  3. v. make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants

Etymologies

  1. (onomatopoeia) (Wiktionary)
  2. Imitative. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • bilby
    In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
    With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
    He put a bullet through his brain.
    No one spoke of him again.

    - Siegfried Sassoon, 'Suicide in the Trenches'. Jul 23, 2009

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