crump

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But he, too, at length gives way, and all is silent within the cavern, save the "crump-crump" of the horses munching their coarse provender, with now and then a hoof striking the hard rock.

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  1. transitive verb To crush or crunch with the teeth.
  2. transitive verb To strike heavily with a crunching sound.
  3. intransitive verb To make a crunching sound, especially in walking over snow.
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  • A dull crump, a heavy pause, then came flame and earth in a sour gale, and a white spume of water lit up the dark The men cheered, but the rumbling continued, shaking the ground beneath their feet. —  FSFMagazine,May2007
  • But alas, I am a lonely crump - two tickets is redundant. —  Pharyngula
  • When I looked round - the noise and people lying about, the smoke, the crump of mortars - I said to myself, 'You must be joking'.
  • But he, too, at length gives way, and all is silent within the cavern, save the "crump-crump" of the horses munching their coarse provender, with now and then a hoof striking the hard rock. —  Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco
  • I had not gone far when a "crump" struck so close as to stun and partly bury me. —  The Emma Gees
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Etymologies (7)

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  1. Imitative.

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  1. from Middle English *crump, crumb, croume, crooked, from Anglo-Saxon (only in glosses) crump, crumb, crooked (with verbal noun crymbing, a bending), = Old Saxon krumb = OFries. krumb = Dutch krom = Old High German chrumb, Middle High German krump (also Old High German Middle High German krumpf), German krumm = Danish krum, crooked, = Swedish krum, compassing (cf. Icelandic krumma, a crooked hand, krummi, a name for the raven, crookbeak?); in normal form crumb (modern pron. krum), but with accommodation termination, as if related to English cramp (= Old High German chramph), crooked, and crimp (= Middle High German krimpf), crooked, being apparently from the past participle (as cramp from the preterit and crimp from the present) of the verb represented by crimp: see crimp, and cf. also cramp, crumb. Prob. akin to W. crom, crwm, bending, concave, = Cornish Irish Gaelic crom, crooked, bent. Hence crome, a hook: see crome.
  2. from crump, a.
  3. from Middle English *crumpen, crompen, as in def. 3; otherwise not found in Middle English, except as in freq. crumple, and perhaps crumpet, q. v.; from crump, a. Hence freq. crumple. Cf. crimp, v., and cramp, v.
  4. A variant of cramp, after crump, a. and v.
  5. Scots, imitative like the equivalent crunch. Cf. clump.
  6. English dial. and Scots Cf. crupand crumpet.
 

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