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Crank :: Crank (n.) A sick person; an invalid.

Quartering :: Quartering (a.) At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other..

Counterbalance :: 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.

Crank :: 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..

Crankle :: Crankle (v. i.) To bend, turn, or wind..

Crank :: Crank (n.) A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.

Cranked :: Cranked (a.) Formed with, or having, a bend or crank; as, a cranked axle..

Crankle :: Crankle (n.) A bend or turn; a twist; a crinkle.

Crankle :: Crankle (v. t.) To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle..

Cranky :: Cranky (a.) Full of spirit; crank.

Key :: Key (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..

Crank :: 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.

Walty :: Walty (a.) Liable to roll over; crank; as, a walty ship..

Bicycle :: Bicycle (n.) A light vehicle having two wheels one behind the other. It has a saddle seat and is propelled by the rider's feet acting on cranks or levers.

Shaper :: Shaper (n.) A kind of planer in which the tool, instead of the work, receives a reciprocating motion, usually from a crank..

Crank :: Crank (n.) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.

Crank :: Crank (n.) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage..

Crank :: Crank (n.) Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.

Stiff :: Stiff (superl.) Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank..

Winch :: Winch (n.) A crank with a handle, for giving motion to a machine, a grindstone, etc..

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