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Word Meanings - CRANKLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle. Old Veg's stream . . . drew her humid train aslope, Crankling her banks. J. Philips.

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  • BREAKMAN
    See BRAKEMAN
  • BREAKABLE
    Capable of being broken.
  • TURNSTONE
    Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and
  • CRANKLE
    To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle. Old Veg's stream . . . drew her humid train aslope, Crankling her banks. J. Philips.
  • CRINKLED
    Having short bends, turns, or wrinkles; wrinkled; wavy; zigzag. "The crinkled lightning." Lowell.
  • TURNSPIT
    A small breed of dogs having a long body and short crooked legs. These dogs were formerly much used for turning a spit on which meat was roasting. (more info) 1. One who turns a spit; hence, a person engaged in some menial office. His lordship
  • HUMIDNESS
    Humidity.
  • TURNSOLE
    + sole the sun, L. sol. See Turn, Solar, a., and cf. A plant of the genus Heliotropium; heliotrope; -- so named because its flowers are supposed to turn toward the sun. The sunflower. A kind of spurge . The euphorbiaceous plant Chrozophora
  • TRAINING
    The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education. Fan training , the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan. -- Horizontal training
  • TRAINABLE
    Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson.
  • STREAMLET
    A small stream; a rivulet; a rill.
  • STREAM WHEEL
    A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, the velocity of flowing water; a current wheel.
  • BREAKAWAY
    A wild rush of sheep, cattle, horses, or camels (especially at the smell or the sight of water); a stampede. 2. An animal that breaks away from a herd.
  • CRINKLE
    To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalites or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl. The houscrinkled to and fro. Chaucer. Her face all bowsy, Comely crinkled, Wondrously wrinkled. Skelton. The flames through all the
  • HUMID
    Containing sensible moisture; damp; moist; as, a humidair or atmosphere; somewhat wet or watery; as, humid earth; consisting of water or vapor. Evening cloud, or humid bow. Milton. (more info) akin to uvidus moist, Gr. uksh to wet, sprinkle, and
  • STREAM CLOCK
    An instrument for ascertaining the velocity of the blood in a vessel.
  • BREAKDOWN
    1. The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall. A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called,
  • TRAINER
    1. One who trains; an instructor; especially, one who trains or prepares men, horses, etc., for exercises requiring physical agility and strength. 2. A militiaman when called out for exercise or discipline. Bartlett.
  • BREAK-CIRCUIT
    A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit.
  • STREAM LINE
    The path of a constituent particle of a flowing fluid undisturbed by eddies or the like.
  • MAKE AND BREAK
    Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
  • LAWBREAKER
    One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
  • STRAINABLE
    1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
  • RESTRAINABLE
    Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
  • DISTRAINER
    See DISTRAINOR
  • HALF-STRAINED
    Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
  • OATHBREAKING
    The violation of an oath; perjury. Shak
  • PEACEBREAKER
    One who disturbs the public peace. -- Peace"break`ing, n.
  • UPTRAIN
    To train up; to educate. "Daughters which were well uptrained." Spenser.
  • CORRIDOR TRAIN
    A train whose coaches are connected so as to have through its entire length a continuous corridor, into which the compartments open.
  • STRAINING
    from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
  • UPSTREAM
    Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current.

 

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