Crackled
['krækəld] or ['krækld]
Definition
(a.) Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.
Editor: Peter
Examples
- A little way within the shop-door lay heaps of old crackled parchment scrolls and discoloured and dog's-eared law-papers. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I abode until roof and rafters crackled and crashed around me. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Our feet creaked and crackled over the bare planking, and my outstretched hand touched a wall from which the paper was hanging in ribbons. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I did so, and driven by the draught a coil of gray smoke swirled down the corridor, while the dry straw crackled and flamed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The fire crackled and blazed pleasantly. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Editor: Peter