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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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