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CRANK
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Cranshaw.
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’.
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English
English : variant of Crank.Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Kranke (see Crank).
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.
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American, Australian, British, English
From the Valley
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English
English : variant spelling of Reynolds.
Boy/Male
Hindu
Strong armed, One of the kauravas
Girl/Female
British, English, Greek
A God
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Tamil
Parakasha | பராகாஷ
Bright
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English
English : habitational name from a place in Northamptonshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Silvetone and Selvestone, from the genitive case of an Old English personal name, either Sǣwulf (see Self) or Sigewulf (‘victory wolf’) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.Translation of German and Ashkenazic Jewish Silberstein.
Female
Norse
Old Norse name composed of the elements ey "island" and dis "goddess," hence "island goddess."
Boy/Male
Biblical
I flow, pour out, weep.
Girl/Female
Muslim/Islamic
Confidential talk secret conversation
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American, Anglo, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, English, Indian, Irish, Scottish
Broad Hillside; Salmon; From the Broad Valley
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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 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.
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 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.
a.
Unsteady; easy to upset; crank.
a.
Liable to roll over; crank; as, a walty ship.
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.
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.
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At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.
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Full of spirit; crank.
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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.
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.
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.
The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist.
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.
Crankness.