As I turned the handle of the crankshaft, the old tractor sputtered to life.
Source: tatoeba (747259)
Crankshaft
Synonyms for "crankshaft" (10 found)
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3 entriesTranslations
43 translations across 34 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- krukas noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
Arabic
1 entries- عَمُود الْمِرْفَق noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
Armenian
1 entries- ծնկաձև լիսեռ noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
Bulgarian
1 entries- колянов вал noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
Catalan
1 entries- cigonyal noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 曲軸 /曲轴 noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
Czech
1 entries- kliková hřídel noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
Danish
1 entries- krumtapaksel noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
Dutch
1 entries- krukas noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
Finnish
1 entries- kampiakseli noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
French
1 entries- vilebrequin noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
Galician
1 entries- cigüeñal noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
German
1 entries- Kurbelwelle noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
Greek
1 entries- στροφαλοφόρος άξονας noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
Hebrew
1 entries- גַּל אַרְכֻּבָּה noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
Hungarian
2 entries- forgattyústengely noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
- főtengely noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
Indonesian
3 entries- bandul noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
- kruk as noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
- poros engkol noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
Italian
1 entries- albero a gomiti noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
Japanese
1 entries- クランクシャフト noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
Kazakh
1 entries- иінді білік noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
Lithuanian
1 entries- alkūninis velenas noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
Macedonian
1 entries- коле́несто вра́тило noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- veivaksel noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- veivaksel noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
- veivaksling noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
Polish
1 entries- wał korbowy noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
Portuguese
2 entries- cambota noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
- virabrequim noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
Romanian
2 entries- arbore cotit noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
- vilbrochen noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
Russian
2 entries- коле́нчатый вал noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
- коленва́л noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- koljeničasta osovina noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
Spanish
1 entries- cigüeñal noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
Swedish
1 entries- vevaxel noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
Tagalog
2 entries- sikaran noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
- tandos-sikaran noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
Turkish
1 entries- krank mili noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
Welsh
2 entries- crancsiafft noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
- crancwerthyd noun (rotating shaft that drives a crank)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
The crankshaft is broken.
Source: tatoeba (1676694)
He suffered a crankshaft and battery failure.
Source: tatoeba (11147057)
The attachment of the inboard end of the gear beam was damaged but remained intact; the drag strut fuse pin had 'crankshafted' in a direction indicating that a load had been applied in tension but this had also remained intact.
Source: wiktionary
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