crambling

Verb

cramble (third-person singular simple present crambles, present participle crambling, simple past and past participle crambled)

1. To break apart.
   • Remove this, and the foundation is gone, the superstructure will soon totter, and in less time than was consumed in erecting, will the building cramble to atoms.1878, W. M. French, P. G. Rep., “Miscellaneous”, in Odd Fellow's Talisman and Literary Journal, volume 11, page 578
2. To twist and wind irregularly.
   • The yellow Fumitorie hath many crambling threddie rootes, ſomewhat thicke, groſſe, and fat, like thoſe of Aſparagus: from which riſe diuers vpright ſtalkes a cubite high, diuiding themſelues towarde the top into other ſmaller branches, whereon are confuſedly placed leaues like thoſe of Thalictrum...1597, John Gerarde [i.e., John Gerard], The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. […], London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, →OCLC, book II, page 929
3. To move unsteadily or with difficulty; to hobble.
   • This way is very uncertain; for the Horse finding himself cramp'd, will only draw his Legs after him, and shuffle, unless he be forc'd; and besides, if the Lists are drawn too strait, when they are taken off ; the Sinews will be so numbed, that he will be only capable of crambling and cringing; and...1687, The Jockey's Guide, and Farrier's Companion, page 34

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