crane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: cranes
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.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1876, "Burmah" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 552
glosses: Any bird of the family Gruidae, large birds with long legs and a long neck which is extended during flight.
glosses: Ardea herodias, the great blue heron.
examples: text: Large cranes were virtually non-existent in the areas I worked with this truck, so we jacked everything on and off[.]
ref: 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 111:
glosses: A mechanical lifting machine or device, often used for lifting heavy loads for industrial or construction purposes.
glosses: An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace for supporting kettles etc. over the fire.
glosses: A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc.; generally used in pairs.
Derived terms: word: claw crane
word: container crane
word: craneable
word: crane driver
word: crane engine
word: crane game
word: crane locomotive
word: crane operator
word: crawler crane
word: gantry crane
word: mobile crane
word: overhead crane
word: platform crane
word: skill crane
word: stacker crane
word: steam crane
word: Titan crane
word: tower crane
word: travelling crane
word: traveling crane
sense: Birds
taxonomic: Antigone rubicunda
alt: syn. Grus rubicunda
word: Australian crane
sense: Birds
word: Balearic crane
sense: Birds
taxonomic: Balearica pavonina
word: black crested crane
sense: Birds
taxonomic: Balearica pavonina
word: black crowned crane
sense: Birds
taxonomic: Grus nigricollis
word: black-necked crane
sense: Birds
taxonomic: Grus paradisea
word: blue crane
sense: Birds
taxonomic: Grus grus
word: common crane
sense: Birds
word: crested crane
sense: Birds
word: crowned crane
sense: Birds
taxonomic: Grus virgo
word: demoiselle crane
sense: Birds
taxonomic: Grus grus
word: Eurasian crane
sense: Birds
taxonomic: Balearica regulorum
word: grey crowned crane
sense: Birds
taxonomic: Grus monacha
word: hooded crane
sense: Birds
taxonomic: Grus japonensis
word: Japanese crane
sense: Birds
taxonomic: Grus japonensis
word: Manchurian crane
sense: Birds
taxonomic: Grus virgo
word: Numidian crane
sense: Birds
word: paper crane
sense: Birds
taxonomic: Grus paradisea
word: paradise crane
sense: Birds
taxonomic: Grus japonensis
word: red-crowned crane
sense: Birds
taxonomic: Antigone canadensis
word: sandhill crane
sense: Birds
taxonomic: Antigone antigone
alt: syn. Grus antigone
word: sarus crane
sense: Birds
taxonomic: Grus leucogeranus
word: Siberian crane
sense: Birds
taxonomic: Grus paradisea
word: Stanley crane
sense: Birds
taxonomic: Grus carunculata
word: wattled crane
sense: Birds
taxonomic: Antigone vipio
word: white-naped crane
sense: Birds
taxonomic: Grus americana
word: whooping crane
sense: other terms (unsorted)
word: aircrane
sense: other terms (unsorted)
word: crane fly
sense: other terms (unsorted)
english: Tipulomorpha
translation: Tipulomorpha
word: cranefly
sense: other terms (unsorted)
word: cranelike
sense: other terms (unsorted)
word: craneman
sense: other terms (unsorted)
word: cranequin
sense: other terms (unsorted)
word: cranesbill
sense: other terms (unsorted)
word: craneway
sense: other terms (unsorted)
word: helicrane
sense: other terms (unsorted)
word: minicrane
sense: other terms (unsorted)
word: origami crane
sense: other terms (unsorted)
word: phantom crane fly
sense: other terms (unsorted)
word: skycrane
sense: other terms (unsorted)
word: trumpeter crane
sense: other terms (unsorted)
word: water crane
sense: other terms (unsorted)
word: white crane
sense: other terms (unsorted)
word: White Crane
Related terms: word: cranberry
english: crane
translation: crane
word: via German Low German Kraan
word: egret
word: heron
word: stork