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Cranked   Listen
adjective
Cranked  adj.  Formed with, or having, a bend or crank; as, a cranked axle.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Cranked" Quotes from Famous Books



... turned, slinking round the corner of the hood to the engine. While he cranked it up she thought of the kit that one of the men had left there in the yard. She made a dash and fetched it, and as she threw it on the floor the car started. She snatched at the rope and swung herself up on to the step. The dying man lay behind her, ...
— The Romantic • May Sinclair

... she said, in a quick aside to him. "Let's go." She gave an order, in English now, and a figure started out of the crowd and cranked the car. ...
— The Prisoner • Alice Brown

... resume the chase, when he lost sight of the figure. A moment later he heard the puffing of an automobile, as some one cranked it up. ...
— Tom Swift and his Sky Racer - or, The Quickest Flight on Record • Victor Appleton

... few seconds; then, shrugging his shoulders, he stepped out into the road and into the first cab on the rank. The man cranked his engine, leapt into his seat and drove off. Helen Cumberly, ignoring the curious stares of the two remaining taxi-men, ran out from the shelter of the corner and jumped into the next cab, ...
— The Yellow Claw • Sax Rohmer

... my way, Miguel." The old contractor shook hands with Father Dominic and Farrel, cranked his car, turned it and headed back up the San Gregorio, while Father Dominic guided Don Mike into the Mission refectory, where Father Andreas and the lay brothers sat around the dinner table, discussing a black scale which had lately appeared ...
— The Pride of Palomar • Peter B. Kyne

... the touring car, with Jack Ness to bring the automobile back from the railroad station, he now being able to run the machine. Dick was at the wheel. Tom had cranked up, and off they sped, with a merry shout and with those left behind ...
— The Rover Boys in the Air - From College Campus to the Clouds • Edward Stratemeyer



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