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To crank
noun
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 reciprocating into circular motion.
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How to crank up a car window.
I'm about to crank this sucker up".
Winds have also begun to crank up.
"It takes people to crank those out.
"Was this Intel's last chance to crank that old model?
A lot of people know how to crank it out.
His capacity to crank stuff out is amazing.
It seemed like the genteel amount to crank.
The lighthouse keepers had to crank it every two hours.
Review: Jim Davidson's jokes are engineered to crank laughter.
Gary Neville is no longer there to crank up hostilities.
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