crick : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: crick	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for crick
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
crick n a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) Synonym(s): crick, kink, rick, wrick English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004) Synonym(s): Crick, Francis Crick, Francis Henry Compton Crick v twist (a body part) into a strained position; "crick your neck"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crick \Crick\ (kr[icr]k), n. [See {Creak}.] The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it. [Obs.] --Johnson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. To those also that, with a crick or cramp, have thei necks drawn backward. --Holland. 2. [Cf. F. cric.] A small jackscrew. --Knight.