Crossword clues for cracklings
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Greaves \Greaves\ (gr[=e]vz), n. pl. [Cf. dial. Sw. grevar greaves, LG. greven, G. griebe, also AS. greofa pot. Cf. Gravy.] The sediment of melted tallow. It is made into cakes for dogs' food. In Scotland it is called cracklings. [Written also graves.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of crackling English)Category:English plurals 2 (context US English) The crisp rendered skin of a pig used as food; crackling (UK) 3 (context obsolete English) Food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting.
WordNet
n. the crisp residue left after lard has been rendered
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "cracklings".
Here and there, as dying shadows roiled away into smoke, his spell was being brought to collapse: the daggers were rising from the ground, their cracklings and radiances fading, to leap at shadows.
Thorny boughs fell away with dry cracklings, a booted foot slipped, and there was a heavy crash, followed, as three adventurers caught their breath in unison, by a tense silence.
It took Ilbryn right in his ribs, shattering his shielding spell in a cascade of small and wayward cracklings and snatching him off his feet.
There were cracklings from some electric storm perhaps a thousand miles away.
The air was full of tiny sounds, cracklings and tinklings as though the air itself froze and fell.
He browsed through the refrigerator, fashioned himself a peanut butter, mayonnaise, and green chili sandwich, drummed up a Baggie full of cracklings that he wished had come from Seferino Pacheco's ravenous thundering pig, turned on the radio to "Heartbreak Theater," and settled himself regally at the table, munching on his sandwich and chugging swiftly through two beers while bemusedly regarding bis fluttering centerpiece and listening to the lovesick deeds of one Big Bill Killeen and his smalltown starstruck consort, Melody Applebaum, coming from the radio.
The ait was full of tiny sounds, cracklings and tinklings as though the air itself froze and fell.