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Crane
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- 1 A surname. countable
- 2 A placename:; A minor river in Dorset, England, which becomes the Moors River near Verwood; the name is a back-formation from Cranborne. countable, uncountable
- 3 A placename:; A minor river in Greater London, England, which joins the Thames near Twickenham. countable, uncountable
- 4 A placename:; A town in Martin County, Indiana, United States. countable, uncountable
- 5 A placename:; A town in Stone County, Missouri, United States. countable, uncountable
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- 6 A placename:; A census-designated place in Harney County, Oregon, United States. countable, uncountable
- 7 A placename:; A city, the county seat of Crane County, Texas, United States. countable, uncountable
- 8 A placename:; An unincorporated community in Bath County, Virginia, United States. countable, uncountable
- 1 Any bird of the family Gruidae, large birds with long legs and a long neck which is extended during flight.
"Aquatic birds of various kinds are very numerous, such as geese, darters (Flotus melanogaster), scissor-bills (Rhynchops nigra), adjutants (Leptoptilos argala), pelicans, cormorants, cranes (Grus antigone, in Burmese gyoja), whimbrels, plovers, and ibises."
- 2 The cranium. obsolete
- 3 Alternative form of cran (“measure of herrings”). alt-of, alternative
- 4 large long-necked wading bird of marshes and plains in many parts of the world wordnet
- 5 Ardea herodias, the great blue heron. US, dialectal
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- 6 lifts and moves heavy objects; lifting tackle is suspended from a pivoted boom that rotates around a vertical axis wordnet
- 7 A mechanical lifting machine or device, often used for lifting heavy loads for industrial or construction purposes.
"Large cranes were virtually non-existent in the areas I worked with this truck, so we jacked everything on and off[.]"
- 8 An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace for supporting kettles etc. over the fire.
- 9 A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask.
- 10 A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc.; generally used in pairs.
- 1 To extend (one's neck). ambitransitive
"and my bachelor's hearth is imbedded where by much craning of head and neck I can catch sight of a sycamore in the Square garden,"
- 2 stretch (the neck) so as to see better wordnet
- 3 To raise or lower with, or as if with, a crane. transitive
"What engines, what instruments are used in craning up a soul, sunk below the centre, to the highest heavens."
- 4 To pull up before a jump. intransitive
Etymology
From Middle English crane, from Old English cran (“crane”), from Proto-West Germanic *kran, *kranō, from Proto-Germanic *kranô (“crane”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to cry hoarsely”). Cognate with Scots cran (“crane”), Dutch kraan (“crane”), German Low German Kroon (“crane”), German Kran (“crane”). The mechanical devices are named from their likeness to the bird.
From Middle English crane, from Old English cran (“crane”), from Proto-West Germanic *kran, *kranō, from Proto-Germanic *kranô (“crane”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to cry hoarsely”). Cognate with Scots cran (“crane”), Dutch kraan (“crane”), German Low German Kroon (“crane”), German Kran (“crane”). The mechanical devices are named from their likeness to the bird.
From Middle English crane, cranee, from Old French cran, from Medieval Latin crānium.
* As an English surname, from the noun crane. * As a Dutch surname, spelling variant of Krane. * As a German surname, adaptation of Krahn and Krahnich.
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