craunching

And then there was growling and craunching, I reckon.

Summerfield or, Life on a Farm Day Kellogg Lee

After a time it seemed to me that we were descending from the plateau; craunching gradually down a flank until, in a mile or so, we were again upon the level, cutting through another basin formed by the dried bed of an ancient lake whose waters had evaporated into deposits of salt and soda.

Desert Dust J. Clinton Shepherd 1911

A single push of 300 or 400 pounds would scarcely have moved the stub, but these little fifty-pound pushes at just the right time made it give more and more, and after three or four minutes the roots, that had begun to crack, gave way with a craunching sound, and down crashed the great stub.

Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

So assured were the Aryks in fact that they showed a disposition to toy for a moment with their victims, as a cat does with a mouse before craunching it in her jaws.

The Land of Mystery Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878

Yes! it was a panting outside -- a panting now increased, multiplied, redoubled, mixed with the sounds of rustling, tearing, craunching, and occasionally a quick, impatient snarl.

In the Carquinez Woods Bret Harte 1869

Fred and myself raised our rifles simultaneously, but before we brought them to bear, the animal had quit his grip and began craunching some bones which were lying near the fire, tearing the meat which adhered to them in the most ravenous manner, and exhibiting all the signs of starvation.

The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia William Henry Thomes 1859