Definitions
Tall machine used for lifting and moving heavy loads.
Word origin
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”).
Used in a sentence
“Large cranes were virtually non-existent in the areas I worked with this truck, so we jacked everything on and off[.]”
“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.”
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01“Tall lifting machine”5 letters
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