Hand-cranked

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Operated by means of a hand crank. not-comparable

    "Action such as this, filmed under great difficulty with a bulky, hand-cranked camera, revealed the possibilities of the movies and was quite startling in those early days."

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"Tom used a hand-cranked pasta machine to make fresh pasta."

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