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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.

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

Gatling Gun :: Gatling gun () An American machine gun, consisting of a cluster of barrels which, being revolved by a crank, are automatically loaded and fired..

Quartering :: Quartering (a.) At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other..

Bell Crank :: Bell crank () A lever whose two arms form a right angle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pulls and in changing the direction of bell wires at angles of rooms, etc., and also in machinery..

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

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

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

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

Cranked :: Cranked (a.) Formed with, or having, a bend or crank; as, a cranked axle..

Crank :: Crank (n.) A bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion. See Bell crank..

Organ :: Organ (n.) A component part performing an essential office in the working of any complex machine; as, the cylinder, valves, crank, etc., are organs of the steam engine..

Crank :: Crank (n.) A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion..

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..

Hurdy-gurdy :: Hurdy-gurdy (n.) A stringled instrument, lutelike in shape, in which the sound is produced by the friction of a wheel turned by a crank at the end, instead of by a bow, two of the strings being tuned as drones, while two or more, tuned in unison, are modulated by keys..

Cranky :: Cranky (a.) Unsteady; easy to upset; crank.

Eccentric :: Eccentric (n.) A disk or wheel so arranged upon a shaft that the center of the wheel and that of the shaft do not coincide. It is used for operating valves in steam engines, and for other purposes. The motion derived is precisely that of a crank having the same throw..

Cranky :: Cranky (a.) Full of spirit; crank.

Web :: Web (n.) The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist.

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.

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