Crick v.2. World English Historical Dictionary

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[Echoic, or perh. a. F. criquer. It implies a less shrill and prolonged sound than creak.] To make a sharp abrupt sound, as a grasshopper. Hence Cricking vbl. sb.

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1601.  Holland, Pliny, I. 353. Others make a cricking with a certain long traine, as the Grashoppers.

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a. 1693.  Urquhart, Rabelais, III. xiii. 107. The … mumbling of Rabets, cricking of Ferrets.

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