crane
IPA: krˈeɪn
noun
- Any bird of the family Gruidae, large birds with long legs and a long neck which is extended during flight.
- (US, dialect) Ardea herodias, the great blue heron.
- A mechanical lifting machine or device, often used for lifting heavy loads for industrial or construction purposes.
- An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace for supporting kettles etc. over the fire.
- A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask.
- (nautical) A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc.; generally used in pairs.
- (obsolete) The cranium.
- (countable) A surname.
- A placename
- A minor river in Greater London, England, which joins the Thames near Twickenham.
- A town in Martin County, Indiana, United States.
- A town in Stone County, Missouri, United States.
- A census-designated place in Harney County, Oregon, United States.
- A city, the county seat of Crane County, Texas, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Bath County, Virginia, United States.
- Alternative form of cran (“measure of herrings”) [(obsolete) A measure of herrings, either imprecise or sometimes legally specified. It has oftentimes been about 37½ imperial gallons, or ~750 herrings on average (up to 1200 or even ~2500).]
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To extend (one's neck).
- (transitive) To raise or lower with, or as if with, a crane.
- (intransitive) To pull up before a jump.
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Examples of "crane" in Sentences
- The crane can warp anything quick.
- The crow didnt listen to the cranes advice.
- The crane is auspicious in Japanese culture.
- The single fixed pulley is installed on the crane.
- Ahn told me; he calls the crane turumi, bird of peace.
- Crane was one of the last to leave the ship in a dinghy.
- The company built the floating steam crane, the Hikitia.
- Please include the statics involved in the cranes design.
- The cranes are actually part of the decoration of the building.
- A crane at the surface removes the soil with a clamshell bucket.
- The machine chinks out a name just as the squeak on the crane itself does.
- Closest crane is approximately 100 -150 feet South and East of the helipad.
- I mean taking a bomb off the bottom of a car with a crane is jump impossible.
- Government agencies are finally implementing data-sharing after nine people die in crane ...
- Maybe I will call the burrito place in crane to see if they do anything different then yours.
- Government agencies are finally implementing data-sharing after nine people die in crane accidents ...
- It appears that the days of launching boats from the island to race out to shark attacks are overthe east landing crane is now closed to this kind of activity.
- Thus, to return, in that little anecdote relative to the Conqueror and William Fitz-Osbern, mentioned above, not the crane, but _the flesh of the crane_ is said to have been under-roasted.
- Luciano Cheles has also observed that "on both sides of the [Carte de trionfi] card devoted to 'Geometria,' a wading bird that may well be a crane is represented in the foreground of the landscape," a feature that he suggests "hints at surveying" (Studiolo of Urbino, 81).