crankle

A bend, twist or crinkle.

To bend, turn, or wind.

Meander, who is said so intricate to bee, Hath not so many turnes, nor crankling nookes as shee.

Along the crankling path.

To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.

Old Vaga's stream […] drew her humid train aslope, / Crankling her banks.