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- Crank - n. - 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 - n. - Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
- Crank - n. - A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
- Crank - n. - A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion.
- Crank - n. - A person full of crotchets; one given to fantastic or impracticable projects; one whose judgment is perverted in respect to a particular matter.
- Crank - n. - A sick person; an invalid.
- Crank - n. - Sick; infirm.
- Crank - n. - 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 - n. - Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
- Crank - n. - To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
- Crankbird - n. - A small European woodpecker (Picus minor).
- Cranked - a. - Formed with, or having, a bend or crank; as, a cranked axle.
- Crankiness - n. - Crankness.
- Crankle - v. t. - To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.
- Crankle - v. i. - To bend, turn, or wind.
- Crankle - n. - A bend or turn; a twist; a crinkle.
- Crankness - n. - Liability to be overset; -- said of a ship or other vessel.
- Crankness - n. - Sprightliness; vigor; health.
- Cranky - a. - Full of spirit; crank.
- Cranky - a. - Addicted to crotchets and whims; unreasonable in opinions; crotchety.
- Cranky - a. - Unsteady; easy to upset; crank.
- Beam - n. - A heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; -- called also working beam or walking beam.
- Throw - n. - The extreme movement given to a sliding or vibrating reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, eccentric, or the like; travel; stroke; as, the throw of a slide valve. Also, frequently, the length of the radius of a crank, or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston.
- Counterbalance - n. - A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the wheel
- Web - n. - The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist.
- Eccentric - n. - A disk or wheel so arranged upon a shaft that the center of the wheel and that of the shaft do not coincide. It is used for operating valves in steam engines, and for other purposes. The motion derived is precisely that of a crank having the same throw.
- Winch - n. - A crank with a handle, for giving motion to a machine, a grindstone, etc.
- Hurdy-gurdy - n. - A stringled instrument, lutelike in shape, in which the sound is produced by the friction of a wheel turned by a crank at the end, instead of by a bow, two of the strings being tuned as drones, while two or more, tuned in unison, are modulated by keys.
- Winch - n. - An axle or drum turned by a crank with a handle, or by power, for raising weights, as from the hold of a ship, from mines, etc.; a windlass.