cramble

A branch that has been broken and blown onto the ground by the wind.

After the wind-tempest, when branches lie in crambles upon the clearings and neighbors at far distances phone down the foothills under the mountains to ask if all is well still, the answer is “Yes”

These were not your ordinary crambles Boughs and branches broken by the wind.

To break apart.

Remove this, and the foundation is gone, the superstructure will soon totter, and in less time than was consumed in erecting, will the building cramble to atoms.

Usually she crambles the sand particles with her mandibles and fore legs and sweeps it out backwards through the underside of her abdomen.

To twist and wind irregularly.

The yellow Fumitorie hath many crambling threddie rootes, ſomewhat thicke, groſſe, and fat, like thoſe of Aſparagus: from which riſe diuers vpright ſtalkes a cubite high, diuiding themſelues towarde the top into other ſmaller branches, whereon are confuſedly placed leaues like thoſe of Thalictrum or Engliſh Rubarbe, but leſſer and thinner: […]

Juliet, crambling up her hair, darted into the house to prepare the tea, and also to “tidy herself.”

To move unsteadily or with difficulty; to hobble.

This way is very uncertain; for the Horse finding himself cramp'd, will only draw his Legs after him, and shuffle, unless he be forc'd; and besides, if the Lists are drawn too strait, when they are taken off ; the Sinews will be so numbed, that he will be only capable of crambling and cringing; and moreover it will greatly subject him to the String-halt, and often twitching up his Legs.

And see! enfeebled by repeated shocks, Those two, who cramble on the adjacent rocks, Their faithless hold no longer can retain, They sink o'erwhelm'd! and never rise again!