Hypertext Webster Gateway: "crunching"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Crunch \Crunch\ (kr[u^]nch), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Crunched}
(kr[u^]ncht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crunching}.] [Prob. of
imitative origin; or cf. D. schransen to eat heartily, or E.
scrunch.]
1. To chew with force and noise; to craunch.

And their white tusks crunched o'er the whiter
skull. --Byron.

2. To grind or press with violence and noise.

The ship crunched through the ice. --Kane.

3. To emit a grinding or craunching noise.

The crunching and ratting of the loose stones. --H.
James.

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