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▪ I. crink, n.
Also 6–7 krink(e.
[f. crink v., or directly from vb. stem crinc-an: see crank n.1]
1. A twist, bend, or winding; a winding crevice, furrow, or channel. Cf. crank n.2 1. Now dial.
1565Golding Ovid's Met. viii. (1593) 186 A house with many nooks and krinkes. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 188/1 Gutters are the Slifters, or Krinks, in the beam of a Stags horn. 1888Sheffield Gloss., Crink, a twist or bend.
†2. fig. An intricate turn or twist of thought or speech; a tortuous shift or sleight. Obs.
1565Golding Ovid's Met. vii. (1593) 176 The krinks of certaine prophesies surmounting farre above The reach of ancient wits to read. 1583― Calvin on Deut. xv. 89 Such a crink was practised against mee. 1587― De Mornay xx. 313 To take away the doubts, and to auoyde the krinks inuented anew by certaine Libertines.
3. dial. (See quots.)
1888Berksh. Gloss. s.v. Cranks, A person is said to be full of ‘crinks and cranks’ when generally complaining of ill health. [1883Hampsh. Gloss., Crink-crank words are long words..not properly understood.]
▪ II. crink, v.1|krɪŋk|
Also 6 krink.
[possibly a survival of OE. crincan to contract or draw oneself together in a bent form (see crank n.1), but more prob. repr. an earlier *crenk:—krankjan, causal deriv. of crincan. In mod. use, however, perh. formed anew from crinkle.]
Hence ˈcrinking vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1. trans. To bend or twist; to form into furrows or wrinkles; to crinkle. dial.
1821Clare Vill. Minstr. II. 93 As the wakening wind..o'er the water crink'd the curdled wave. 1888Sheffield Gloss., Crink, to twist, or wrench painfully. ‘I've crinked my neck.’..When a man bends a piece of iron by hammering it he is said to crink it.
†2. intr. (fig.) To use tortuous shifts or sleights.
1583Golding Calvin on Deut. xxxix. 231 If wee vse any craftinesse or krinking. Ibid. 234 He which thinketh to further himselfe by his crinking, pilling and deceyuing.
▪ III. crink, v.2
[Echoic: cf. creak, crick, crinkle, etc.]
intr. To make a sound in which cricking and chinking blend. Hence ˈcrinking ppl. a.
1860Gosse Rom. Nat. Hist. 174 The noisy cicadæ that..make the woods ring with their pertinacious crinking. Ibid. (ed. 7) 105 Those crinking merry-voiced denizens of our summer-fields. |