Crick, n.
n. [See CREAK.] 1. The creaking of a door. [Obs.]
Sense 2. [Cf. A-S. cric, crice, cryc, crycc, a crooked staff.] A spasmodic and acutely painful affection of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, rendering it difficult to move the part affected.
They have gotten such a crick in their neck, they can not look backward on what was behind them. Fuller.