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cricking

vb. (present participle of crick English)

Usage examples of "cricking".

Suddenly a gust boiled in and racked the trees, and a cricking downpour of leaves fell.

He could only lie there and listen to the breeze moving the leaves outside and the cricking of the crickets and the small sharp sounds of the house contracting as the night cooled it from the outside in.

Anyway, the two brothers over there said she was closest to the action, and she kept cricking her Kricket at the Krishna until he stopped screaming.

She took the scissors and went to the fence, which was made of something almost like cloth, with little boxes along the top that made a quiet cricking noise.