[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

crinkle \crin"kle\, v. i.
   to turn or wind; to run in and out in many short bends or
   turns; to curl; to run in waves; to wrinkle; also, to rustle,
   as stiff cloth when moved.
   1913 webster

         the green wheat crinkles like a lake.    --l. t.
                                                  trowbridge.
   1913 webster

         and all the rooms
         were full of crinkling silks.            --mrs.
                                                  browning.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

crinkle \crin"kle\, n.
   a winding or turn; wrinkle; sinuosity.
   1913 webster

         the crinkles in this glass, making objects appear
         double.                                  --a. tucker.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

crinkle \crin"kle\ kri^ng"k'l, v. t. imp.  p. p.
   crinkled -k'ld; p. pr.  vb. n. crinkling -kli^ng.
   a dim., fr. the root of cringe; akin to d. krinkelen to wind
   or twist. cf. cringle, cringe.
   to form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into
   inequalities or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl.
   1913 webster

         the house?s crinkled to and fro.         --chaucer.
   1913 webster

         her face all bowsy,
         comely crinkled,
         wondrously wrinkled.                     --skelton.
   1913 webster

         the flames through all the casements pushing forth,
         like red-not devils crinkled into snakes. --mrs.
                                                  browning.
   1913 webster
see also:
crinkled crinkling cringle cringe 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

crinkle
     n : a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his
         face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles"
         syn: wrinkle, furrow, crease, seam, line
     v 1: make wrinkles or creases into a smooth surface; "the dress
          got wrinkled" syn: wrinkle, ruckle, crease, scrunch,
           scrunch up, crisp
     2: become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "this fabric won't
        wrinkle" syn: rumple, crumple, wrinkle, crease
see also:
wrinkle furrow crease seam line ruckle 
scrunch scrunch up crisp rumple crumple 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

83 moby thesaurus words for "crinkle":
   ambages, anfractuosity, bristle, circuitousness, circumambages,
   circumbendibus, circumlocution, circumvolution, cocker, cockle,
   contort, convolution, corkscrew, corrugate, corrugation, crankle,
   crease, crimp, crimple, crinkling, crumple, flexuosity,
   flexuousness, fold, furrow, intorsion, intort, involution, knit,
   knot, meander, meandering, plica, pucker, purse, ridge, rimple,
   ripple, rivel, rivulation, ruck, ruckle, ruffle, rumple, rustle,
   scallop, screw, scrunch, serpentine, set on edge, shirr, sinuation,
   sinuosity, sinuousness, slink, slinkiness, snake, snakiness, swirl,
   swish, torsion, tortility, tortuosity, tortuousness, turn, turning,
   twine, twirl, twist, twist and turn, twisting, undulation, wave,
   waving, whirl, whish, whorl, wimple, wind, winding, worm, wring,
   wrinkle

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