[f. CROOK v.1 + -ING1.] The action of the verb CROOK; bending from the straight line; a bend, curve, curvature.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Serm., Sel. Wks. II. 287. Þis crokyng bi litil and litil is now cropen ferre fro Cristis lawe.
1483. Cath. Angl., 85. A Crukynge of þe water, meandir.
1551. Recorde, Pathw. Knowl., II. Introd. In true streightenes without crokinge.
1562. Phaër, Æneid., IX. The horsmen kest them selfs in crokings knowen of quainted ground.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1673), 48. Rivers … [that] by their crooking and winding … imitate the fashion of a horn.
