cruckling
cruckling is the present participle and gerund of cruckle.
Meaning of cruckle
Verb
cruckle (third-person singular simple present cruckles, present participle cruckling, simple past and past participle cruckled)
- To stumble after inverting or everting one's foot; to roll (but not necessarily sprain) one's ankle.
- The resident, who does not want to be named, was walking along the street on Sunday (1 November) morning when she suddenly cruckled over on her ankle and fell on her hands, resulting in cuts and bruises.2015 November 4, “Woman injured after falling on damaged pavement in Middleton”, in Rochdale Online
Questions about cruckling
- What is cruckling the present participle and gerund of?
- Cruckling is the present participle and gerund of cruckle.
Words near cruckling in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: cruckling (page history and authors); cruckle (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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