Crank is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CRANK in dictionary:

VERB:
• to start manually
• turn the crankshaft of (an internal combustion engine) in order to start the engine
• turn (a handle) in order to start an engine
• increase the intensity of something
• produce something regularly and routinely
• give a bend to (a shaft, bar, etc.)
• inject a narcotic drug
• travel along a zigzag path
• start by cranking
• rotate with a crank
• fasten with a crank
• bend into the shape of a crank
• turn with a crank
NOUN:
• a part of an axle or shaft bent out at right angles, for converting reciprocal to circular motion and vice versa
• the drug methamphetamine.
• an eccentric person, especially one who is obsessed by a particular subject
• a bad-tempered person.
• a fanciful turn of speech.
• arm projecting at right angles from a shaft
• 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.
• Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
• A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
• A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion.
• A person full of crotchets; one given to fantastic or impracticable projects; one whose judgment is perverted in respect to a particular matter.
• A sick person; an invalid.
• Sick; infirm.
• 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.
• Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
• To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
• a whimsically eccentric person
• an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
• a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle
ADJECTIVE:
• lively
• (of a sailing ship) liable to heel over.
• (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
• (of a sailing vessel) easily keeled over by the wind

Words related to CRANK

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How to use CRANK in a sentence

• The politicians had come to look upon Morse as a crank, and it was extremely difficult for his adherents to secure favorable action in the House.
• The children were too intent on the music to notice them, and the figure at the crank did not change its stiff, military attitude.
• D is the crank in the intermediate shaft, which works the air pump E.
• So I told myself he was an old crank, and found a great doctor I could hire to agree with me.
• If triple expansion were adopted, then new engines would be wanted, but the present crank and screw shafts would answer perfectly.
• The highest position of P will be that shown in the figure, determined by placing the crank vertically, as OC.
• P being the given point, CD is the corresponding position of the connecting rod, OC that of the crank.
• Sage gave us a description that night of the time his office was blown up with dynamite thrown by a crank, and of his narrow escape.
• Open crank letter to the New York State Conservation Department.
• The bitterness that grew out of it had the effect of bringing a crank on the scene of action.
• The man put the garments into the machine, turned the crank, and in a minute the black and dirt were all out of the aprons.
• You seldom meet an enthusiast who is not a crank also.
• The man with the camera began turning a crank on one side, and a low whirring noise blended softly with the roar of the rushing water.
• Even if he has received these messages, they are the emanations of a crank, as, he says, he himself first suspected.
• Happy Jack and Big Medicine took turns at the crank of the big drying drum, around which Andy and Weary had carefully wound the wet film.
• In this case a handle must be attached to the rim of the wheel to serve as a crank.
• Keyser then worked the crank until half-past three, when, as the butter had not come, he surrendered it again to the hired man because he had an engagement in the village.
• Moreover, if he followed such an extreme course he would be regarded as a crank, and he could not have borne to be regarded as a crank.
• Each line of pumps is driven from a crank placed on a steel spur-wheel shaft 15 inches in diameter, making ten revolutions per minute.
• He is simply a chivalrous crank of the South, and we must humor him.

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