crankle

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈkɹeɪ̯ŋkəl/|[ˈkʰɹʷeɪ̯ŋkəl] ~ [ˈkʰɹʷeɪ̯ŋkl̩]|/ˈkɹɛ̃ŋkəl/|[ˈkʰɹʷɛ̃ŋkəl] ~ [ˈkʰɹʷɛ̃ŋkl̩]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A bend, twist or crinkle.
动词 v.
  1. To bend, turn, or wind.
    — Meander, who is said so intricate to bee, Hath not so many turnes, nor crankling nookes as shee.
  2. To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.
    — Old Vaga's stream […] drew her humid train aslope, / Crankling her banks.

词形变化

crankles plural crankles present,singular,third-person crankling participle,present crankled participle,past crankled past

词源

词源 1
From crank + -le.
Coined by Michael Drayton in 1596. According to the Poly-Olbion project, "Drayton probably derived ‘crankling’ from ‘crank’, a word which had its first recorded usage in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis (1594) where it describes a hare which ‘crankes and crosses with a thousand doubles’."
词源 2
From crank + -le.
Coined by Michael Drayton in 1596. According to the Poly-Olbion project, "Drayton probably derived ‘crankling’ from ‘crank’, a word which had its first recorded usage in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis (1594) where it describes a hare which ‘crankes and crosses with a thousand doubles’."
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