crankle
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 7
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Definition of crankle
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- A bend, twist or crinkle.
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noun
- A bend, twist or crinkle.
verb
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To bend, turn, or wind.
“Meander, who is said so intricate to bee, Hath not so many turnes, nor crankling nookes as shee.”
“Along the crankling path.”
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To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.
“Old Vaga's stream […] drew her humid train aslope, / Crankling her banks.”
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Etymology
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 you can make from crankle
104 playable · top: CALKER (12 pts)
Best play calker 12 points6-letter words
7 words5-letter words
18 words4-letter words
41 words- CAKE 10 pts
- CALK 10 pts
- CARK 10 pts
- LACK 10 pts
- NECK 10 pts
- RACK 10 pts
- RECK 10 pts
- KALE 8 pts
- KANE 8 pts
- KARN 8 pts
- KERN 8 pts
- KNAR 8 pts
- LAKE 8 pts
- LANK 8 pts
- LARK 8 pts
- LEAK 8 pts
- NARK 8 pts
- RAKE 8 pts
- RANK 8 pts
- ACNE 6 pts
- ACRE 6 pts
- ALEC 6 pts
- CANE 6 pts
- CARE 6 pts
- CARL 6 pts
- CARN 6 pts
- CLAN 6 pts
- LACE 6 pts
- NARC 6 pts
- RACE 6 pts
- EARL 4 pts
- EARN 4 pts
- ELAN 4 pts
- LANE 4 pts
- LARN 4 pts
- LEAN 4 pts
- LEAR 4 pts
- NARE 4 pts
- NEAR 4 pts
- RALE 4 pts
- REAL 4 pts
3-letter words
25 words2-letter words
12 wordsHooks
2 extensions · 2 back
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