crackle
/ˈkɹækəl/ noun C1- A prolonged, frequent cracking sound; a fizzing, popping sound. · I heard a crackle from the frying pan as I was frying bacon.· There was an annoying crackle during the phone call, due to poor connection.
- A style of glaze giving the impression of many small cracks.
- The fifth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration, jerk, and jounce), i.e. the rate of change of jounce.
- Synonym of crackling (“crispy rind of roast pork”).
Plural crackles
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His escort would rush him up a tree till he felt the thinnest topmost branches crackle and bend under them, and then with a cough and a whoop would fling themselves into the air outward and downward, and bring up, hanging by their hands or their feet to the lower limbs of the next tree.
Yet, in spite of his shabby and even absurd appearance, his voice had a sharp crackle, and his manner a quick intensity which commanded attention.
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