3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crackle \Crac"kle\ (kr[a^]k"k'l), v. i. [Dim. of crack.]
To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises,
rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning
thorns crackle.
The unknown ice that crackles underneath them.
--Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crackle \Crac"kle\, n.
1. The noise of slight and frequent cracks or reports; a
crackling.
The crackle of fireworks. --Carlyle.
2. (Med.) A kind of crackling sound or r[^a]le, heard in some
abnormal states of the lungs; as, dry crackle; moist
crackle. --Quain.
3. (Fine Arts) A condition produced in certain porcelain,
fine earthenware, or glass, in which the glaze or enamel
appears to be cracked in all directions, making a sort of
reticulated surface; as, Chinese crackle; Bohemian
crackle.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
crackle
adj : having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks,
as in crackleware; "a crackle glaze"
n 1: the sharp sound of snapping noises [syn: {crackling}, {crepitation}]
2: glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface
[syn: {crackleware}, {crackle china}]
v 1: make a crackling sound; "My Rice Crispies crackled in the
bowl" [syn: {crepitate}]
2: make crunching noises; "his shoes were crunching on the
gravel" [syn: {crunch}, {scranch}, {scraunch}]
3: to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of
small cracks; "The blazing sun crackled the desert sand"