“crank” is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used as both a noun and a verb. Noun: My car's crank handle is stuck. Verb: I cranked the car engine but it wouldn't start.
The remains were found indicating the crewmen were at their positions at the crank.
And thanks to those geniuses at the league, the big – really big – run of games is about to crank up for the second time this season, starting with Barcelona v Sevilla on Wednesday night.
But the inevitable consequence of the Treasury decision is that RBS will crank up fixed pay.
Add the thyme, pour over your stock, and crank the heat up to bring it to the boil.
The chief executive, Andrew Witty, said the company had been preparing for a pandemic for the last three-and-a-half years and had spent more than £1bn to ensure its factories could crank up production at short notice.
Holland's inquiry was hampered by the hoaxer Wearside Jack, and the ongoing investigation is starting to receive its fair share of crank callers.
"Get off," she says, pushing him away, denying the producers their "crank up the Snow Patrol, here's the heart-warming bit".
For good or for ill, Noel seems content to go it alone, whereas every other member of that original lineup, you'd imagine, is chomping at the bit to crank up the old machine again.
But I think they make it harder to deny that this law-breaking crank should be no one's poster boy; nor should the self-styled militiamen who journeyed from across the country to defend, at the point of assault rifles, Mr Bundy's right to trespass be hailed as heroes.
Admittedly, for every lost prophet there is a crank who is simply lost.
Petrol engines are also expected to operate over a much wider range of crank speeds, and to respond much more rapidly when called upon by the driver to do so.
