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crackle verb. LME.
[from CRACK verb: see -LE3.]
verb intrans. Emit a succession of slight cracking sounds. Formerly also (contempt.), trill or quaver in singing. LME.
C. Hardwick Huge logs blazed and crackled. D. H. Lawrence The wind made the canvas crackle.
b. fig. Sparkle with vigour or animation. M20.
verb trans. Cause to emit a crackling sound; break with a crackling sound. E17.
J. Steinbeck His fingers crackled the paper in his pocket.
crackled ppl adjective (a) (of roast pork) having the skin crisp and hard (see CRACKLING noun 3); (b) (esp. of ceramics etc.) marked by many small cracks. E17.
crackly adjective having a tendency to crackle M19.