crackle

make a crackling sound

• “My Rice Crispies crackled in the bowl”

make crunching noises

• “his shoes were crunching on the gravel”

to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks

• “The blazing sun crackled the desert sand”

the sharp sound of snapping noises

glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface

having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware

• “a crackle glaze”