The next moment he was plucked out into the air, and fell with a "cranch" upon the rocks!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scalp Hunters] Reference

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.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Hunters] Reference

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 hot and ready to be eaten.    From Wordnik.com.  [Payson Roundup stories] Reference

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 fragments of pottery that covered the deserted streets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scalp Hunters] Reference

Nay, the latter are the more harmless wild beasts; for they only cranch a poor traveller now and then, and when they are famished with hunger: the others, though they have dined, cut the throats of some hundreds of poor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference

On this wet day, in the preaching-room of the mill, amid forms and desks, with the cranch of the stones from below, the wash of the wheel from outside, and the rush of the uncrushed corn from above, Cæsar sat rolling sugganes for the stackyard, with Kate working the twister, and going backward before him, and half his neighbours sheltering from the rain and looking on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Manxman A Novel - 1895] Reference

That cranch and that drip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference

"cranch, cranch, cranch," sounded in the dry leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Little Confederates] Reference