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单词 cramble
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cramblen.

Etymology: Allied to cramble v.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcramble.
northern dialect.
Boughs or branches of crooked and angular growth; used for rustic work or firewood.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > bough or branch > crooked branch(es)
wrong1764
cramble1788
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > naturally or artificially bent wood
knee-timber1612
knee1679
cramble1788
crook1802
bent-wood1862
1788 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 299Crambles’—firewood boughs, 10s. to 12s. a load.
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 39 Crambles, the large knotted boughs of trees.
1858 W. White Month in Yorks. xi. 112 A crammle gate is a rustic gate with zigzaggy rails.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2020).

cramblev.

/ˈkramb(ə)l/
Forms: Also 1500s crambil, 1800s dialect crammel, crammle.
Etymology: Actual origin obscure: in form apparently a frequentative and diminutive from stem cramb- : see cram v. Analogous forms, but none of them exactly corresponding in form and sense, are German krammeln to grope or clutch about, to finger; German and East Frisian krimmeln to crawl, krabbeln to crawl, move with all fours, or with many limbs as an insect, to grope with the fingers, clamber, scramble up. Compare also scramble v.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
1. intransitive. To creep about with many turns and twists: said of roots, stems, etc. Obsolete. crambling rocket n. Obsolete = rocket n.4 2.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > series of curves > have series of curves [verb (intransitive)] > have many or winding curves
wryc1374
cramble1570
wind1666
serpentine1767
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Kivv/1 To Crambil, reptitare.
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 19 [It] hath many crooked and crambling rootes, of a wooddie substance, very like vnto the right Cyperus.
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 24 Also the roote crambleth and creepeth hither and thither.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 215 Crambling Rocket hath many large leaues cut into sundry sections.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 431 Armes or braunches..crambling or leaning toward the grounde.
2. Of persons or animals: To crawl, hobble, walk lamely, decrepitly, stiffly, or feebly.‘Still used in north. Eng. dialects down to Cheshire and Lincolnshire.’ ( N.E.D.)
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > unevenly
hobble1362
clockc1400
hirple?a1500
hitch1513
himp1533
cramble1607
himple1656
hoit1786
tolter1821
hippity-hoppity1830
clop1863
hippity hop1879
1607 G. Markham Cavelarice iv. 10 The gartering of the foales legges, makes it cramble with the hinder parts, and goe both crookedly and illfauouredly.
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 190 Up which defatigating hill we crambled with no small difficulty.
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 39 Crammel or Cramble, to walk ill, as with corns on the feet, to hobble.
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Cramble, to hobble or creep. Crammle, to crawl on the hands and knees.
1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness Crammle, to walk feebly or lamely: ‘Poor awd man, he can hardly crammle’.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Cramble, to move as though the joints were stiff.
1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) Cramble, to hobble. (Macclesfield.)
3. transitive. (See quot. 1883) Cf. cram n., cramp n.1
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1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield Crammle, to twitch, or squeeze into a small compass. Thus a shoe is crammled down at the heel.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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