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crick

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Noun, Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

crickn. [See Creak.].
     The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.  Johnson.  [1913 Webster]
crickn. [The same as creek a bending, twisting. See Creek, Crook.].
  •  A painful, spasmodic affection of the muscles of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, rendering it difficult to move the part.  [1913 Webster]
    " To those also that, with a crick or cramp, have thei necks drawn backward."  [1913 Webster]
  •  A small jackscrew.  Knight.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

crick, n. & v.
--n. a sudden painful stiffness in the neck or the back etc.
--v.tr. produce a crick in (the neck etc.).

Etymology
ME: orig. unkn.

THESAURUS

crick

acute pain, bite, boring pain, branch, brook, charley horse, chirk, chirking, chirp, chirrup, cramp, cramps, creak, darting pain, fulgurant pain, gill, girdle pain, gnawing, griping, hitch, jumping pain, kink, lancinating pain, nip, pang, paroxysm, pinch, prick, race, rivulet, run, runnel, seizure, sharp pain, shoot, shooting, shooting pain, spasm, stab, stabbing pain, stitch, stream, stridulate, stridulation, thrill, throes, tormen, tweak, twinge, twitch, wrench

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crick

Physical Pain

N physical pain, pain, suffering, sufferance, suffrance, bodily pain, physical pain, bodily suffering, physical suffering, body pain, mental suffering, dolour, ache, aching, smart, shoot, shooting, twinge, twitch, gripe, headache, stomach ache, heartburn, angina, angina pectoris, hurt, cut, sore, soreness, discomfort, malaise, cephalalgia, earache, gout, ischiagra, lumbago, neuralgia, odontalgia, otalgia, podagra, rheumatism, sciatica, tic douloureux, toothache, tormina, torticollis, spasm, cramp, nightmare, ephialtes, crick, stitch, thrill, convulsion, throe, throb, pang, colic, kink, sharp pain, piercing pain, throbbing pain, shooting pain, sting, gnawing pain, burning pain, excruciating pain, anguish, agony, torment, torture, rack, cruciation, crucifixion, martyrdom, toad under a harrow, vivisection, in pain, in a state of pain, pained, gouty, podagric, torminous, painful, aching, sore, raw, Special Sensation (1) Touch.


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