The bottom bracket holds the spindle and the cranks.
I had sheared off one of the cranks.
He divides them into different camps, including the "cranks" and the "firebrands".
Or maybe it just would have been a deafening free-for-all, cranking up all the cranks.
The cranks who blast Obama for golfing while Egypt burns could use a badminton swing to the head.
The odds and sods, the cranks and campaigners, the youthful Hagues and Blairs, will all be excluded.
Later, he tried to critique official inflation numbers without knowing enough about that subject to tell the difference between the experts and the cranks.
In 1996, Mr. Francis created a separate file in his computer to keep track of the cranks and their Web sites.
(In this regard, the cranks and idealists in your local Green Party have more sense than the pundits who fantasized about a Bloomberg-for-President campaign).
[C2.] The gears of the economy began grinding again, though many of the human beings turning the cranks needed comforting and many of their customers were depressed.
Related: Industrial relations: once the cranks' obsession, now the government's business | Tim Lyons The idea that employment is a purely voluntary contract is much loved by the posh boys and parasites who inhabit rightwing thinktanks.
