crane
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
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.
Inflected forms:
form: cranes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cranes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: craning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: craned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: craned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any bird of the family Gruidae, large birds with long legs and a long neck which is extended during flight.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: Ardea herodias, the great blue heron.
pos: noun
tags: US
dialectal
gloss: A mechanical lifting machine or device, often used for lifting heavy loads for industrial or construction purposes.
pos: noun
examples: Large cranes were virtually non-existent in the areas I worked with this truck, so we jacked everything on and off[.]
gloss: An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace for supporting kettles etc. over the fire.
pos: noun
gloss: A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask.
pos: noun
gloss: A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc.; generally used in pairs.
pos: noun
gloss: To extend (one's neck).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: 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,
Didcot had one definite pleasure. We knew that little boys would be going up and down the platform singing out, "Banbury cakes! Banbury cakes!" And mother would crane out and buy some, just to encourage the crew.
I'm gonna be a star and people will crane necks
To get a glimpse of me and see if I am having sex
gloss: To raise or lower with, or as if with, a crane.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: What engines, what instruments are used in craning up a soul, sunk below the centre, to the highest heavens.
an upstart craned up to the height he has
Several overnight weekend possessions were required to crane in new bridges and various other parts of the buildings which were manufactured offsite.
gloss: To pull up before a jump.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: cranberry
via German Low German Kraan
egret
heron
stork
Derived words: breakdown crane
claw crane
container crane
craneable
crane driver
crane engine
crane game
crane-line
crane locomotive
crane operator
crawler crane
gantry crane
mobile crane
overhead crane
platform crane
skill crane
stacker crane
steam crane
Titan crane
tower crane
travelling crane
traveling crane
Australian crane
Balearic crane
black crested crane
black crowned crane
black-necked crane
blue crane
common crane
crested crane
crowned crane
demoiselle crane
Eurasian crane
grey crowned crane
hooded crane
Japanese crane
Manchurian crane
Numidian crane
paper crane
paradise crane
red-crowned crane
sandhill crane
sarus crane
Siberian crane
Stanley crane
wattled crane
white-naped crane
whooping crane
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