[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That creaks: see the verb.
1568. T. Howell, Arb. Amitie (1879), 76. The creking Crow and carrion Kight.
1599. Porter, Angry Wom. Abingt., in Hazl., Dodsley, VII. 383. Some creaking goose would chide us with a hiss.
1697. Dryden, Virg. Georg., III. 510. Creaking Grashoppers.
1800. Mar. Edgeworth, Belinda (1832), II. xx. 47. What man can ever expect to be loved who wears creaking shoes?
1888. F. Hume, Mad. Midas, II. ii. 127. It is said that ‘creaking doors hang the longest.’
Hence Creakingly adv., in a creaking manner; with creaking.
1832. Blackw. Mag., XXXII. 640. Backwards and forwards he creakingly swung.
1858. Chamb. Jrnl., X. 124. Bolts and bars … cautiously and creakingly withdrawn.
