v. dial. [Related to the root vb. *crimb-an, OE. crimman to press, compress, and to crumb adj. contracted, bent, crooked, in the same way as crimple is to crimp vb. and crump adj.1: see CRIMPLE v. 2.] intr. To shrink, cringe, go shrinking from observation.
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Crimble, to creep about privily, to sneak, to wind along unperceived.
1884. Cheshire Gloss., Crimble, to sneak out of an engagement.
1887. S. Cheshire Gloss., Crimble, intr. to cringe, to lift and draw together the shoulders … to avoid certain places, pick one’s way.
