"cranch" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cranches",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cranching",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cranched",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cranched",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cranch (third-person singular simple present cranches, present participle cranching, simple past and past participle cranched)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "craunch"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1847, George Payne Rainsford James, The Castle of Ehrenstein, page 6",
          "text": "His path soon became encumbered, and first he stumbled over a slimy skull, then trod upon some bones that cranched under his feet, while strange whisperings seemed to spread around him, till, with no light joy, he saw the farther wall of the vault, with an open arch leading out into some place beyond.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1848, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Harold, The Last of the Saxon Kings, page 268",
          "text": "And before the army of the land-folk was riding a huge witch-wife upon a wolf; the worlf had a man's carcase in his mouth, and the blood was dripping and dropping from his jaws; and when the wolf had eaten up that carcase, the witch-wife threw another into his jaws; and so, one after another; and the wolf cranched and swallowed them all .",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1854, Robert Smith Surtees, Handley Cross, page 398",
          "text": "He need not have been alarmed, for no one came for any, and he munched and cranched his portion in peace.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1873, Cunningham Geikie, Life in the Woods: A True Story of the Canadian Bush, page 245",
          "text": "They then burned one finger, and cranched another with their teeth, and pressed and twisted those which were already mangled, with the rage of demons.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of craunch"
      ],
      "id": "en-cranch-en-verb-KK4NBRbm",
      "links": [
        [
          "craunch",
          "craunch#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cranch"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cranches",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cranching",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cranched",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cranched",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cranch (third-person singular simple present cranches, present participle cranching, simple past and past participle cranched)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "craunch"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1847, George Payne Rainsford James, The Castle of Ehrenstein, page 6",
          "text": "His path soon became encumbered, and first he stumbled over a slimy skull, then trod upon some bones that cranched under his feet, while strange whisperings seemed to spread around him, till, with no light joy, he saw the farther wall of the vault, with an open arch leading out into some place beyond.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1848, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Harold, The Last of the Saxon Kings, page 268",
          "text": "And before the army of the land-folk was riding a huge witch-wife upon a wolf; the worlf had a man's carcase in his mouth, and the blood was dripping and dropping from his jaws; and when the wolf had eaten up that carcase, the witch-wife threw another into his jaws; and so, one after another; and the wolf cranched and swallowed them all .",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1854, Robert Smith Surtees, Handley Cross, page 398",
          "text": "He need not have been alarmed, for no one came for any, and he munched and cranched his portion in peace.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1873, Cunningham Geikie, Life in the Woods: A True Story of the Canadian Bush, page 245",
          "text": "They then burned one finger, and cranched another with their teeth, and pressed and twisted those which were already mangled, with the rage of demons.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of craunch"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "craunch",
          "craunch#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cranch"
}