To move with a hissing or crackling sound; to crackle; to shrivel or curl with heat (rare/dialectal).
Origin uncertain; possibly related to Old English or Germanic roots suggesting quick, hissing sounds, or potentially related to crackle. The word is primarily dialectal and archaic.
Crisle is one of those wonderful dialect words that linguists find in old texts but that have almost completely disappeared—it represents a whole vocabulary of sound-words (crackle, crinkle, crisp) that different regions used for similar phenomena.
Complete word intelligence in one call. Free tier — 50 lookups/day.