Lexicographical Neighbors of Crankly
Literary usage of Crankly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"3. 2. Crank is used in this sense in various parts of England, see EDD. (sv Crank,
adj.*). crankly, briskly, Peele, Tale of Troy (ed. Dyce, p. ..."
2. The Works of George Peele by George Peele (1888)
"And thus this doughty daysman,3 as I read, Did crankly 4 venture on this thankless
deed : Whom Juno first, ..."
3. Fraser's Magazine (1880)
"... what they call "crinkly crankly,"— treacle trickled (like a maze) upon the
bread; and Tommy said, " Look here, it is the very same upon this gun! ..."
4. Proverbs, Proverbial Expressions, and Popular Rhymes of Scotland by Andrew Cheviot (1896)
"... of crankly, parish of Edrom, Berwickshire. It is said of a tall thin lad, He's
a lang, lean slough, fit to raise a dearth amang the bread. ..."
5. Picture of a Factory Village: To which are Annexed, Remarks on Lotteries by Thomas Man (1833)
"... will buy together, Old Faulkner's, and bind with sole leather A piece of oak
wood, to make a keel; Then when aboard, will not crankly reel, Both rock, ..."
6. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"3. 2. Crank is used in this sense in various parts of England, see EDD. (sv Crank,
adj.*). crankly, briskly, Peele, Tale of Troy (ed. Dyce, p. ..."
7. The Works of George Peele by George Peele (1888)
"And thus this doughty daysman,3 as I read, Did crankly 4 venture on this thankless
deed : Whom Juno first, ..."
8. Fraser's Magazine (1880)
"... what they call "crinkly crankly,"— treacle trickled (like a maze) upon the
bread; and Tommy said, " Look here, it is the very same upon this gun! ..."
9. Proverbs, Proverbial Expressions, and Popular Rhymes of Scotland by Andrew Cheviot (1896)
"... of crankly, parish of Edrom, Berwickshire. It is said of a tall thin lad, He's
a lang, lean slough, fit to raise a dearth amang the bread. ..."
10. Picture of a Factory Village: To which are Annexed, Remarks on Lotteries by Thomas Man (1833)
"... will buy together, Old Faulkner's, and bind with sole leather A piece of oak
wood, to make a keel; Then when aboard, will not crankly reel, Both rock, ..."
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