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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A bent piece of an axle, or shaft, or an arm attached at right angles to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a circular action to a wheel or other mechanical device and create power; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.
  • Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
  • informal An ill-tempered or nasty person
  • nautical A ship which, because of insufficient or poorly stowed ballast or cargo, is in danger of overturning
  • rare A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
  • Liverpool|British A person who is considered strange to others. They may do strange things, or be a crank by nature.
  • The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
  • slang methamphetamine.

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Verb:

  • intransitive dated To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
  • rfv-sense To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably.
  • To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
  • To produce or present a desired object.
  • To turn a '''crank'''.

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