/krak"nl/ , n.
1. a hard, brittle cake or biscuit.
2. cracknels , small bits of fat pork fried crisp. Cf. scrapple .
[ 1350-1400; ME crak ( e ) nele craquenelle, metathetic alter. of craquelin crakelinc, equiv. to crake ( n ) to CRACK + -linc -LING 1 ]