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v. - Press or grind with a grinding noise.

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Usage examples (8)
  • The next moment he was plucked out into the air, and fell with a "cranch" upon the rocks!
  • The opossum (for it was no other than an old she 'possum), now turned upon her tail; and, seizing the head of the hare in her hog-like jaws, killed it at a single "cranch."
  • You cranch the derogator, step through into varitime, do whatever you have to do, and return in 60 seconds, having just cooked dinner, which now sits on the table, all...
  • As we rode through the ruin, a dead stillness surrounded us, broken only by the hooting of the night-bird, and the "cranch-cranch" of our horses 'feet upon the...
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