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▪ I. cramble, v. Obs. exc. dial.|ˈkræmb(ə)l|
Also 6 crambil, 9 dial. crammel, -le.
[Actual origin obscure: in form app. a freq. and dim. from stem cramb-: see cram. Analogous forms, but none of them exactly corresponding in form and sense, are Ger. krammeln to grope or clutch about, to finger; Ger. and E.Fris. 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. Cf. also scramble.]
†1. intr. To creep about with many turns and twists: said of roots, stems, etc. Obs.
1570Levins Manip. 126/42 To crambil, reptitare. 1597Gerarde Herbal i. xvi. 19 [It] hath many crooked and crambling rootes of a woody substance, very like unto the right Cyperus. Ibid. i. xviii. 24 Also the root crambleth..hither and thither. Ibid. ii. cxlix. 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.)
1617Markham Caval. iv. 11 The gathering of the foales legges makes it cramble with the hinder parts, and goe both crookedly and ill-fauouredly. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1638) 190 Up which defatigating hill we crambled with no small difficulty. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., Crammel or Cramble, to walk ill, as with corns on the feet, to hobble. 1869Lonsdale Gloss., Cramble, to hobble or creep. Crammle, to crawl on the hands and knees. 1877Holderness Gloss., Crammle, to walk feebly or lamely: ‘Poor awd man, he can hardly crammle’. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss., Cramble, to move as though the joints were stiff. 1884Cheshire Gloss., Cramble, to hobble. (Macclesfield.)
3. trans. (See quot.) Cf. cram, cramp.
1883Huddersfield Gloss., Crammle, to twitch, or squeeze into a small compass. Thus a shoe is crammled down at the heel.
▪ II. ˈcramble, n. north. dial.
[Allied to prec. vb.]
Boughs or branches of crooked and angular growth; used for rustic work or firewood.
1788W. Marshall Yorksh. (1796) II. 289 ‘Crambles’—firewood boughs, 10s. to 12s. a load. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., Crambles, the large knotted boughs of trees. 1858W. White Month in Yorksh. xi. 112 A crammle gate is a rustic gate with zigzaggy rails. |