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Crane

noun

1.

United States writer (1871-1900). Synonym: Stephen Crane.

2.

United States poet (1899-1932). Synonyms: Harold Hart Crane, Hart Crane.

3.

A small constellation in the southern hemisphere near Phoenix. Synonym: Grus.

4.

Lifts and moves heavy objects; lifting tackle is suspended from a pivoted boom that rotates around a vertical axis.

5.

Large long-necked wading bird of marshes and plains in many parts of the world.

verb

(past & past part. craned; pres. part. craning)

1.

Stretch (the neck) so as to see better. Synonym: stretch out.

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"Crane" Quotes from Famous Books

... a great pot of meat. They set up a crane over the fire and hung the pot upon it, and we sat and watched it boil while we joked. At last the supper began. The farmer sat gloomily on the bench and would not eat, and you cannot wonder; for he saw us putting potfuls of his good beef and basket-loads ...

— Viking Tales • Jennie Hall

... were secured by them from being hurt by missiles shot through the walls. Against these he either shot stones big enough to drive the marines from the prow; or let down an iron hand swung on a chain, by which the man who guided the crane, having fastened on some part of the prow where he could get a hold, prest down the lever of the machine inside the wall; and when he had thus lifted the prow and made the vessel rest upright on ...

— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece • Various

... don't know. He preferred to take the journey on foot, and he may be here at almost any time. But, as I have told you, he is very uncertain. If he should happen to make the acquaintance of some interesting snipe, or crane, or plover, he may prefer its company to ours, and then there is no counting on him any longer. He may be as likely to turn up at the North Pole as at ...

— Tales From Two Hemispheres • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

... Grandoni. "It reminds me," she said, "of the things a young man used to do whom I knew years ago, when I first came to Rome. He was a German, a pupil of Overbeck and a votary of spiritual art. He used to wear a black velvet tunic and a very low shirt collar; he had a neck like a sickly crane, and let his hair grow down to his shoulders. His name was Herr Schafgans. He never painted anything so profane as a man taking a drink, but his figures were all of the simple and slender and angular pattern, and ...

— Roderick Hudson • Henry James

... own cousin!" exclaimed Archer, "there's a noble fellow! there's my own cousin, I acknowledge. Fill the bag, then." Several times the bag descended and ascended; and at every unlading of the crane, fresh acclamations were heard. ...

— The Parent's Assistant • Maria Edgeworth

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