crankle

Etymology
. . 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’."

Noun

 * 1) A bend, twist or crinkle.

Derived terms

 * crinkle-crankle

Verb

 * 1) To bend, turn, or wind.
 * 2) To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.
 * 1) To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.
 * 1) To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.