[f. prec.]
1. An act, or the action, of crunching.
1836. Marryat, Midsh. Easy, xvii. 56. If you will not take us, the sharks shall—it is but a crunch, and all is over.
1856. Kane, Arct. Expl., I. xxvii. 361. Listening to the half-yielding crunch of the ice beneath.
1867. Baker, Nile Tribut., ii. The hippo … caught him in its mouth and killed him by one crunch.
2. pl. Small pieces resulting from crunching. rare.
1833. Moir, Mansie Wauch, xxiii. (1849), 181. [He] had his pipe smashed to crunches.
