Definition of Crackings

1. cracking [n] - See also: cracking

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crackings

crackerboxes
crackerjack
crackerjacks
crackerless
crackerlike
crackers
crackest
crackhead
crackheads
crackhouse
crackhouses
crackier
crackiest
cracking
cracking a book
crackings (current term)
crackjaw
crackle
crackle china
crackleberries
crackleberry
crackled
crackles
crackleware
cracklewares
cracklier
crackliest
cracklike
crackling
crackling jaw

Literary usage of Crackings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1855)
"The dead silence that reigns, is n- terrupted only by the whistling of the winds against the prominent points of ice, and sometimes by the loud crackings ..."

2. Fats and Fatty Degeneration: A Physico-chemical Study of Emulsions and the by Martin Fischer, Marian Osgood Hooker (1917)
"These linear cleavages remind one not only of the linear crackings observable in our own skins but in many other drying animal and plant tissues. ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1864)
"There are no crackings in the ear. They are replaced by a mucous sound. Nervous deafness is easily distinguished by the complete absence of wax from the ..."

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