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Crank   /kræŋk/   Listen
Crank

noun
1.
A bad-tempered person.  Synonyms: churl, crosspatch, grouch, grump.
2.
A whimsically eccentric person.  Synonyms: crackpot, fruitcake, nut, nut case, screwball.
3.
An amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant.  Synonyms: chalk, chicken feed, deoxyephedrine, glass, ice, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, shabu, trash.
4.
A hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle.  Synonym: starter.
verb
1.
Travel along a zigzag path.  Synonym: zigzag.
2.
Start by cranking.  Synonym: crank up.
3.
Rotate with a crank.  Synonym: crank up.
4.
Fasten with a crank.
5.
Bend into the shape of a crank.
adjective
1.
(used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail.  Synonyms: cranky, tender, tippy.



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"Crank" Quotes from Famous Books



... on hand when a storm had to be worked," she says, "and would grind away with a will at a crank that, turning against a tight band of silk, made the sound of a tremendously shrieking wind. And no one sitting in front of the house, looking at a white-robed woman ascending to heaven, apparently floating upward through the blue clouds, enjoyed the ...
— Ten American Girls From History • Kate Dickinson Sweetser
... than by poles. He whittled out the model of a tiny paddle wheel. Then he went to work with Chris Gumpf, and they made a larger paddle wheel. This they set up in the fishing boat. The wheel was turned by the boys with a crank. They did not use the ...
— Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans • Edward Eggleston
... to you like that," she exclaimed. "She old crank, anyway. You not like her. See me—I young, strong; I cook, wash, iron, clean. I do everything. You do notting. I cook good, too; not so much fancy, but awful good. My last madam, I with her one year. She sick, go South yesterday. She cry, say 'I so sorry, ...
— Revelations of a Wife - The Story of a Honeymoon • Adele Garrison
... point Number Seven interrupted me by calling out, "Give us some of those cranks' letters. A crank is a man who does his own thinking. I had a relation who was called a crank. I believe I have been spoken of as one myself. That is what you have to expect if you invent anything that puts an old machine out of fashion, or solve ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... you do your own charity, Bransome, instead of taxing me? That's the crank who wanted to run your lake down, isn't he? I guess I'll never see either him or them ...
— Thurston of Orchard Valley • Harold Bindloss


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