crank

Hard; difficult.

Strange; weird; odd.

Bent; twisted; crooked; distorted; out of repair.

Sick; unwell.

Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.

This ship is so crank and walty I fear our grave she will be!

The stowage was clumsily done, and the vessel consequently crank.

An ailment, ache.

An ill-tempered or nasty person.

Billy-Bob is a nasty old crank! He chased my cat away.

A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;

A fit of temper or passion.

Violent of temper; subject to sudden cranks.

A person who is considered strange or odd by others, and may behave in unconventional ways.

John is a crank because he talks to himself.

Persons whom the Americans since Guiteau’s trial have begun to designate as ‘cranks’—that is to say, persons of disordered mind, in whom the itch of notoriety supplies the lack of any higher ambition.

A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or re

I grind my coffee by hand with a coffee grinder with a crank handle.

A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or re

The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.

Yes, a crank was all it needed to start.

Give it a forceful crank.

Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.

So many turning cranks these have, so many crooks.

Synonym of methamphetamine.

Danny got abscesses from shooting all that bathtub crank.