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Crankness :: Crankness (n.) Sprightliness; vigor; health.

Crank :: Crank (n.) Liable to careen or be overset, as a ship when she is too narrow, or has not sufficient ballast, or is loaded too high, to carry full sail..

Crankle :: Crankle (v. t.) To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle..

Crank :: Crank (n.) A person full of crotchets; one given to fantastic or impracticable projects; one whose judgment is perverted in respect to a particular matter.

Key :: Key (n.) A bar, pin or wedge, to secure a crank, pulley, coupling, etc., upon a shaft, and prevent relative turning; sometimes holding by friction alone, but more frequently by its resistance to shearing, being usually embedded partly in the shaft and partly in the crank, pulley, etc..

Shaper :: Shaper (n.) A kind of planer in which the tool, instead of the work, receives a reciprocating motion, usually from a crank..

Draglink :: Draglink (n.) A link connecting the cranks of two shafts.

Throw :: Throw (n.) The extreme movement given to a sliding or vibrating reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, eccentric, or the like; travel; stroke; as, the throw of a slide valve. Also, frequently, the length of the radius of a crank, or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston..

Eye :: Eye (n.) A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc.; as an eye at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss; as an eye through a crank; an eye at the end of rope..

Walty :: Walty (a.) Liable to roll over; crank; as, a walty ship..

Trunk :: Trunk (n.) A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact..

Crankle :: Crankle (v. i.) To bend, turn, or wind..

Scranky :: Scranky (a.) Thin; lean.

Crankbird :: Crankbird (n.) A small European woodpecker (Picus minor).

Winch :: Winch (n.) An axle or drum turned by a crank with a handle, or by power, for raising weights, as from the hold of a ship, from mines, etc.; a windlass..

Crankness :: Crankness (n.) Liability to be overset; -- said of a ship or other vessel.

Crank :: Crank (n.) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.

Counterbalance :: Counterbalance (n.) A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the wheel.

Crank :: Crank (n.) Sick; infirm.

Bicycle :: Bicycle (n.) A light vehicle having two wheels one behind the other. It has a saddle seat and is propelled by the rider's feet acting on cranks or levers.

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