Crane vs. Crank

Crane and Crank Definitions
Crane
Any of various large wading birds of the family Gruidae, having a long neck, long legs, and a long bill.
Crank
A device for transmitting rotary motion, consisting of a handle or arm attached at right angles to a shaft.
Crane
A similar bird, such as a heron.
Crank
A clever turn of speech; a verbal conceit
Quips and cranks.
Crane
A machine for hoisting and moving heavy objects by means of cables attached to a movable boom.
Crank
A peculiar or eccentric idea or action.
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Crane
Any of various devices with a swinging arm, as in a fireplace for suspending a pot.
Crank
A grouchy person.
Crane
To hoist or move with or as if with a crane.
Crank
An eccentric person, especially one who is unduly zealous.
Crane
To strain and stretch (the neck, for example) in order to see better.
Crank
(Slang) Methamphetamine.
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Crane
To stretch one's neck toward something for a better view.
Crank
To start or operate (an engine, for example) by or as if by turning a handle.
Crane
To be irresolute; hesitate.
Crank
To move or operate (a window, for example) by or as if by turning a handle.
Crane
Any bird of the family Gruidae, large birds with long legs and a long neck which is extended during flight.
Crank
To make into the shape of a crank; bend.
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Crane
Ardea herodias, the great blue heron.
Crank
To provide with a handle that is used in turning.
Crane
A mechanical lifting machine or device, often used for lifting heavy loads for industrial or construction purposes.
Crank
To turn a handle.
Crane
An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace for supporting kettles etc. over the fire.
Crank
To wind in a zigzagging course.
Crane
A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask.
Crank
Of, being, or produced by an eccentric person
A crank letter.
A crank phone call.
Crane
(nautical) A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc.; generally used in pairs.
Crank
Liable to capsize; unstable.
Crane
(obsolete) The cranium.
Crank
(slang) Strange, weird, odd.
Crane
(ambitransitive) To extend (one's neck).
Crank
Sick; unwell.
Crane
(transitive) To raise or lower with, or as if with, a crane.
Crank
Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
Crane
(intransitive) To pull up before a jump.
Crank
Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
Crane
A wading bird of the genus Grus, and allied genera, of various species, having a long, straight bill, and long legs and neck.
Crank
A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.
I grind my coffee by hand with a coffee grinder with a crank handle.
Crane
Any arm which swings about a vertical axis at one end, used for supporting a suspended weight.
Crank
Clipping of crankshaft
Crane
A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral distance. In one form it consists of a projecting arm or jib of timber or iron, a rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc.; - so called from a fancied similarity between its arm and the neck of a crane See Illust. of Derrick.
Crank
The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
Yes, a crank was all it needed to start.
Give it a forceful crank.
Crane
An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace, for supporting kettles, etc., over a fire.
Crank
(archaic) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
Crane
A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask.
Crank
(informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person.
Billy-Bob is a nasty old crank! He chased my cat away.
Crane
A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc., - generally used in pairs. See Crotch, 2.
Crank
A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;
Crane
The American blue heron (Ardea herodias).
Crank
A fit of temper or passion.
Crane
To cause to rise; to raise or lift, as by a crane; - with up.
What engines, what instruments are used in craning up a soul, sunk below the center, to the highest heavens.
An upstart craned up to the height he has.
Crank
A person who is considered strange or odd by others. They may behave in unconventional ways.
John is a crank because he talks to himself.
Crane
To stretch, as a crane stretches its neck; as, to crane the neck disdainfully.
Crank
A baseball fan.
Crane
To reach forward with head and neck, in order to see better; as, a hunter cranes forward before taking a leap.
The passengers eagerly craning forward over the bulwarks.
Crank
(informal) An amateur in science or other technical subjects who persistently advocates flawed theories
That crank next door thinks he’s created cold fusion in his garage.
Crane
United States writer (1871-1900)
Crank
Synonym of methamphetamine.
Danny got abscesses from shooting all that bathtub crank.
Crane
United States poet (1899-1932)
Crank
(rare) A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
Crane
Lifts and moves heavy objects; lifting tackle is suspended from a pivoted boom that rotates around a vertical axis
Crank
(obsolete) A sick person; an invalid.
Crane
Large long-necked wading bird of marshes and plains in many parts of the world
Crank
(slang) The penis.
Crane
Stretch (the neck) so as to see better;
The women craned their necks to see the President drive by
Crank
(transitive) To turn by means of a crank.
Motorists had to crank their engine by hand.
Crank
(intransitive) To turn a crank.
He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.
Crank
To turn.
He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.
Crank
(transitive) To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
I turn the key and crank the engine; yet it doesn't turn over
Crank it up!
Crank
(intransitive) To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
Quit cranking about your spilt milk!
Crank
(intransitive) To be running at a high level of output or effort.
By one hour into the shift, the boys were really cranking.
Crank
To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
Crank
A bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion. See Bell crank.
Crank
Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
So many turning cranks these have, so many crooks.
Crank
A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles.
Crank
A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion.
Violent of temper; subject to sudden cranks.
Crank
A person full of crotchets; one given to fantastic or impracticable projects; one whose judgment is perverted in respect to a particular matter.
Crank
A sick person; an invalid.
Thou art a counterfeit crank, a cheater.
Crank
Sick; infirm.
Crank
Liable to careen or be overset, as a ship when she is too narrow, or has not sufficient ballast, or is loaded too high, to carry full sail.
Crank
Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
He who was, a little before, bedrid, . . . was now crank and lusty.
If you strong electioners did not think you were among the elect, you would not be so crank about it.
Crank
To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
See how this river comes me cranking in.
Crank
A bad-tempered person
Crank
A whimsically eccentric person
Crank
Amphetamine used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
Crank
A hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle
Crank
Travel along a zigzag path;
The river zigzags through the countryside
Crank
Start by cranking;
Crank up the engine
Crank
Rotate with a crank
Crank
Fasten with a crank
Crank
Bend into the shape of a crank
Crank
(used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail