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crankle

Syllables: cran·kle/ˈkɹæŋkəl/US/ˈkɹeɪ̯ŋkəl/

crankle noun: a bend, twist or crinkle.

Noun

crankle (plural crankles)

  1. A bend, twist or crinkle.

Verb

crankle (third-person singular simple present crankles, present participle crankling, simple past and past participle crankled)

  1. To bend, turn, or wind.
    • Meander, who is said so intricate to bee,
      Hath not so many turnes, nor crankling nookes as shee.1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 7 p. 105
    • Along the crankling path.1603, Michael Drayton, The Barons' Wars
  2. To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.
    • Old Vaga's stream […] drew her humid train aslope, / Crankling her banks.1708, John Philips, Cyder

crankle meaning in Tamil

crankle in Tamil

திருப்பம், சுரிப்பு, திருக்கு முறுக்கு, உள்ளும் புறமுமாக வளை, திருகி முறுக்கு

Forms of crankle

Noun
pluralcrankles
Verb
third-person singular presentcrankles
present participlecrankling
past participlecrankled
pastcrankled

Origin of crankle

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’."

Words formed from crankle

Words that rhyme with crankle

Questions about crankle

What does crankle mean?
Crankle means a bend, twist or crinkle.
What is crankle in Tamil?
Crankle in Tamil is திருப்பம், சுரிப்பு, திருக்கு முறுக்கு. See Crankle meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is crankle?
Crankle can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce crankle?
Crankle is pronounced /ˈkɹæŋkəl/.
What is the plural of crankle?
The plural of crankle is crankles.

Words near crankle in the dictionary

  1. cranking the hog
  2. cranking up
  3. crankings
  4. crankish
  5. crankism
  6. crankle
  7. crankled
  8. crankles
  9. crankless
  10. crankling
  11. crankman

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: crankle (page history and authors); crankle (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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