Crick

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crick \Crick\ (kr[i^]k), n. [See {Creak}.]
     The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it. [Obs.]
     --Johnson.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Crick \Crick\, n. [The same as creek a bending, twisting. See
     {Creek}, {Crook}.]
     1. 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.
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              To those also that, with a crick or cramp, have thei
              necks drawn backward.                 --Holland.
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     2. [Cf. F. cric.] A small jackscrew. --Knight.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  crick
       n 1: a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back
            (`rick' and `wrick' are British) [syn: {rick}, {wrick}]
       2: English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover
          the helical structure of DNA (born in 1916) [syn: {Francis
          Crick}, {Francis Henry Compton Crick}]
       v : twist the head into a strained position

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "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