Cryppan
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - cryppan
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- cryppan
- p. te To crook a finger, close the hand, bend:--Crypte plecteret, An. Ox. 52, 2; E. S. xi. 64 (where see note). Crip þínne þúman, Tech. ii. 119, 4. Ðonne þé æpples lyste, þonne cryp þú þínne swíbran þúman tó middewearde þínre handa and befóh hine mid þínum fingre and rǽr up þíne fǽste, 124, 15. [Cf. Ger. krüpfen, kröpfen to crook, bend.]