1748. Dyche, Dict., 5 ed. Cramp-words(s) ... also in the canting
dialect the sentence of death pass’d by the judge upon a criminal.
1785. Grose, Dict. Vulg. Tongue. He has just undergone the
cramp-word.
Cranberry-Eye, subs. (American). A blood-shot eye resulting from
alcoholism.
Crank, subs. (old).—1. Sometimes cranke.—See quots. and Counterfeit
crank.
1567. Harman, Caveat (1814), p. 33. These that do counterfet the
cranke be yong knaues and yonge harlots, that deeply dissemble the
falling sicknes. For the crank in their language is the fallinge
evill.
1610. Rowlands, Martin Mark-all, p. 38 (H. Club’s Repr., 1874).
Crancke, the falling sickenesse: and thereupon your Rogues that
counterfeit the falling sickenes, are called counterfeit crancks.