[Echoic, or perh. a. F. criquer. It implies a less shrill and prolonged sound than creak.] To make a sharp abrupt sound, as a grasshopper. Hence Cricking vbl. sb.
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 353. Others make a cricking with a certain long traine, as the Grashoppers.
a. 1693. Urquhart, Rabelais, III. xiii. 107. The … mumbling of Rabets, cricking of Ferrets.
