What is the name meaning of CRANK. Phrases containing CRANK
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Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Cranshaw.
Female
English
English pet form of Greek Tabitha, TABBY means "female gazelle." In the late 1700s, this name was used as a slang term for a spinster or cranky old woman.
Surname or Lastname
English (chiefly Lancashire)
English (chiefly Lancashire) : from Middle English cranke ‘lively’, ‘lusty’, ‘vigorous’, hence a nickname for a cheerful, boisterous, or cocky person.English : nickname from cranuc, a diminutive of Middle English cran ‘crane’ (see Crane).Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Kranke, from Low German Kraneke ‘crane’, applied to someone thought to resemble the bird in some way, or a nickname for a poor physical specimen, from Middle High German kranc ‘sickly’, ‘ailing’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Crank.Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Kranke (see Crank).
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Boy/Male
Biblical
Prince of the Lord.
Boy/Male
Arabic, British, French
King; Bright
Boy/Male
Tamil
A great sage
Boy/Male
Danish, German, Swedish
Thin; Slender
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Child's Plaything
Girl/Female
Latin
Shining.
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Divine Glory
Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, Christian, English, French, Greek, Latin
Defender of Mankind; Helper; Feminine of Alexander
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Brave Lord
Boy/Male
Polish
Glory and honour.
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n.
A bar, pin or wedge, to secure a crank, pulley, coupling, etc., upon a shaft, and prevent relative turning; sometimes holding by friction alone, but more frequently by its resistance to shearing, being usually embedded partly in the shaft and partly in the crank, pulley, etc.
n.
The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist.
a.
Unsteady; easy to upset; 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.
n.
A machine for raising weights, consisting of a horizontal cylinder or roller moving on its axis, and turned by a crank, lever, or similar means, so as to wind up a rope or chain attached to the weight. In vessels the windlass is often used instead of the capstan for raising the anchor. It is usually set upon the forecastle, and is worked by hand or steam.
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.
n.
A crank with a handle, for giving motion to a machine, a grindstone, etc.
n.
A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc.; as an eye at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss; as an eye through a crank; an eye at the end of rope.
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.
a.
Formed with, or having, a bend or crank; as, a cranked axle.
a.
Full of spirit; crank.
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.
n.
A kind of planer in which the tool, instead of the work, receives a reciprocating motion, usually from a crank.
superl.
Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank.
n.
A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact.
n.
Crankness.
n.
A component part performing an essential office in the working of any complex machine; as, the cylinder, valves, crank, etc., are organs of the steam engine.
n.
A portable machine variously constructed, for exerting great pressure, or lifting or moving a heavy body through a small distance. It consists of a lever, screw, rack and pinion, hydraulic press, or any simple combination of mechanical powers, working in a compact pedestal or support and operated by a lever, crank, capstan bar, etc. The name is often given to a jackscrew, which is a kind of jack.
a.
Liable to roll over; crank; as, a walty ship.
a.
At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.