1) Ancient Roman technology 2) Antique car starter 3) Antique starter 4) Antique-car starter 5) Bart Simpson gag 6) Car part, old style 7) Car starter of yore 8) Chinese invention 9) Crackpot 10) Cranky 11) Curmudgeon 12) Don Rickles 13) Early auto item 14) Early auto starter 15) Early car starter 16) Eccentric
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1) Crackpot 2) Cranky 3) Crosspatch 4) Deoxyephedrine 5) Eccentric 6) Fruitcake 7) Grouch 8) Grumbler 9) Grump 10) Hoist 11) Hothead 12) Meth 13) Methamphetamine 14) Methedrine 15) Misanthrope 16) Misanthropist 17) Nut 18) Nutcase 19) Shabu 20) Tippy 21) Turn 22) Unstable 23) Winch 24) Zealot
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- a bad-tempered person
- a whimsically eccentric person
- a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle
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[mathematics] Office buildings in Perth, Western Australia. ...
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[mechanism] A crank is an arm attached at right angles to a rotating shaft by which reciprocating motion is imparted to or received from the shaft. It is used to convert circular motion into reciprocating motion, or vice-versa. The arm may be a bent portion of the shaft, or a separate arm or disk attached to it. Attached to the end of the c...
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[person] `Crank` is a pejorative term used for a person who holds an unshakable belief that most of his or her contemporaries consider to be false. A crank belief is so wildly at variance with those commonly held as to be ludicrous. Cranks characteristically dismiss all evidence or arguments which contradict their own unconventional beliefs...
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• (n.) A person full of crotchets; one given to fantastic or impracticable projects; one whose judgment is perverted in respect to a particular matter. • (n.) Sick; infirm. • (n.) Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated. • (n.) A bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to t...
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For many motorists, any cyclist. Otherwise, the bar that connects the pedal to the chainwheel. Like so much of life, it's all about leverage.
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in mechanics, arm secured at right angle to a shaft with which it can rotate or oscillate. Next to the wheel, the crank is the most important ...
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Crank adjective [ Anglo-Saxon
cranc weak ; akin to Icelandic
krangr , D. & German
krank sick, weak (cf. Dutch
krengen to careen). Confer
Crank ,
noun ]
1. Sick; infirm. [ Prov. Eng.]
2. (Nautical) Liable to careen or b...
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Crank intransitive verb [ See
Crank ,
noun ] To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn. « See how this river comes me
cranking in.
Shak. »
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Crank noun [ Middle English
cranke ; akin to E.
cringe ,
cringle ,
crinkle , and to
crank ,
adjective , the root meaning, probably, 'to turn, twist.' See
Cringe .]
1. (Machinery) A bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at r...
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The crank was a Victorian instrument of punishment introduced in prisons and consisting of a handle attached to a wooden box. The prisoner had to turn the crank 10,000 revolutions each day, with so many revolutions required before each meal was supplied. Should a prisoner be too quick in completing the required revolutions, the warders could adjust...
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A crank is an axis with the end bent like an elbow, serving as a handle for communicating circular motion; as, the crank of a grindstone; or for changing circular into
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Crank is slang for odd, eccentric.
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adj] - (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail 2. [n] - a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle 3. [v] - start by cranking 4. [v] - rotate with a crank 5. [v] - fasten with a crank 6. [v] - bend into the shape of a crank
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Hitting a ball for extra bases, generally a home run.
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That part of the crankshaft, which is in the form of a crank and crank pin. See also: Crankshaft, Internal Combustion Engine.
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cranky adjective (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
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An axis bent through one or more right angles; it is used to transmit motion or convert reciprocating (backwards-and-forwards or up-and-down) movement into rotary movement, or vice versa. Although similar devices may have been employed in antiquity and as early as the 1st century in China and the 8th century in Europe, the earli...
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See crankset.
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any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc. · an ill-tempered, grouchy person. · an unbalanced person who is overzealous in the advocacy of a private...
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