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Crackle sb. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Crackle sb. [f. the vb.]

1   1.  The act of crackling; the emission of slight cracks.

2 1833.  Ht. Martineau, Manch. Strike, vi. 68. The occasional crackle when Allen folded his paper.

3 1855.  Costello, Stor. Screen, 76. The crackle of the blazing faggots.

4 1872.  Black, Adv. Phaeton, I. xiv. 304. A thin crackle of laughter.

5   † 2.  Something that makes a crackling noise; a rattle. Obs.

6 1591.  Percivall, Sp. Dict., Trebejo, a chesse boord, a childes crackle.

7   3.  A kind of china ware characterized by the appearance of minute cracks all over its surface. Also crackle-china, crackle-ware. So Crackle-glass, a kind of glass of a similar character (originally made at Venice).

8 1867.  Miss Braddon, R. Godwin, I. 170. Curious specimens of crackle, brought home by the Captain.

9 1885.  G. H. Boughton, Sk. Rambles Holland, xvii. 231. Their rarest and choicest bits of old blue and crackle.

10   attrib.  1875.  Ure, Dict. Arts, II. 668 s.v. Glass, The reticulated glass, the crackle glass … are all due to the Venetians.

11 1883.  Miss Braddon, Gold. Calf, I. iv. 102. They had … sniffed at the stale pot-pourri in old crackle vases.

12 1881.  Julia Schayer, in Scribn. Mag., XXI. 266/2. A skin like yellow crackle-ware.

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