What does "crunch" mean?

Crunch: To grind or press with violence and noise. The ship crunched through the ice. Kane.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To emit a grinding or craunching noise. The crunching and ratting of the loose stones. H. James.
  2. 3.To crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise; to craunch; as, to crunch a biscuit.

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