The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Crinkle \Crin"kle\, n.
   A winding or turn; wrinkle; sinuosity.
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         The crinkles in this glass, making objects appear
         double.                                  --A. Tucker.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Crinkle \Crin"kle\ (kr[i^][ng]"k'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   Crinkled (-k'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crinkling (-kl[i^]ng).]
   [A dim., fr. the root of cringe; akin to D. krinkelen to wind
   or twist. Cf. Cringle, Cringe.]
   To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into
   inequalities or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl.
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         The house?s crinkled to and fro.         --Chaucer.
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         Her face all bowsy,
         Comely crinkled,
         Wondrously wrinkled.                     --Skelton.
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         The flames through all the casements pushing forth,
         Like red-not devils crinkled into snakes. --Mrs.
                                                  Browning.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Crinkle \Crin"kle\, v. i.
   To turn or wind; to run in and out in many short bends or
   turns; to curl; to run in waves; to wrinkle; also, to rustle,
   as stiff cloth when moved.
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         The green wheat crinkles like a lake.    --L. T.
                                                  Trowbridge.
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         And all the rooms
         Were full of crinkling silks.            --Mrs.
                                                  Browning.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

crinkle
    n 1: a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his
         face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles"
         [syn: wrinkle, furrow, crease, crinkle, seam,
         line]
    v 1: make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a
         pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; "The dress got
         wrinkled"; "crease the paper like this to make a crane"
         [syn: wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch,
         scrunch up, crisp]
    2: become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't
       wrinkle" [syn: rumple, crumple, wrinkle, crease,
       crinkle]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

83 Moby Thesaurus words for "crinkle":
   ambages, anfractuosity, bristle, circuitousness, circumambages,
   circumbendibus, circumlocution, circumvolution, cocker, cockle,
   contort, convolution, corkscrew, corrugate, corrugation, crankle,
   crease, crimp, crimple, crinkling, crumple, flexuosity,
   flexuousness, fold, furrow, intorsion, intort, involution, knit,
   knot, meander, meandering, plica, pucker, purse, ridge, rimple,
   ripple, rivel, rivulation, ruck, ruckle, ruffle, rumple, rustle,
   scallop, screw, scrunch, serpentine, set on edge, shirr, sinuation,
   sinuosity, sinuousness, slink, slinkiness, snake, snakiness, swirl,
   swish, torsion, tortility, tortuosity, tortuousness, turn, turning,
   twine, twirl, twist, twist and turn, twisting, undulation, wave,
   waving, whirl, whish, whorl, wimple, wind, winding, worm, wring,
   wrinkle