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crank: a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle; (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail; bend into the shape of a crank; fasten with a crank; rotate with a crank; start by cranking; "crank up the engine"

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tauten collapse: make taut or tauter; "tauten a rope"; become taut or tauter; "Your muscles will firm when you exercise regularly"; "the rope tautened"

tighten collapse: become tight or tighter; "The rope tightened"; make tight or tighter; "Tighten the wire"

sourpuss collapse: someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression

harebrain collapse

mutterer collapse: a person who speaks softly and indistinctly

kvetch collapse: (Yiddish) a nagging complaint; (Yiddish) a constant complainer

whiner collapse: a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining

murmurer collapse

grumbler collapse

complainer collapse

crackbrain collapse

draw in collapse: pull inward or towards a center; "The pilot drew in the landing gear"; "The cat retracted his claws"

pull in collapse: move into (a station) of trains; "The bullet train drew into Tokyo Station"

pinch bar collapse: a lever with a pointed projection that serves as a fulcrum; used to roll heavy wheels

ell collapse: an extension at the end and at right angles to the main building

crosspatch collapse

jimmy collapse: a short crowbar; "in England they call a jimmy and jemmy"

weirdo collapse

queer duck collapse

sorehead collapse: someone who is peevish or disgruntled

complainant collapse

zag collapse

crazy idea collapse

fool notion collapse

pirouette collapse: (ballet) a rapid spin of the body (especially on the toes as in ballet); do a pirouette, usually as part of a dance

crowbar collapse: a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge

treadle collapse: operate (machinery) by a treadle; tread over; "the brick maker treadles over clay to pick out the stones"

passing fancy collapse

quirky collapse

caprice collapse: a sudden desire; "he bought it on an impulse"

lunatic fringe collapse: a political unit with extreme and fanatical views

lone wolf collapse

reel collapse: a lively dance of Scottish Highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps; winder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle; attached to a fishing rod; a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector; music composed for dancing a reel; wind onto or off a reel

frondeur collapse

bight collapse: the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends); a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline; "the Bight of Benin"; "the Great Australian Bight"; a bend or curve (especially in a coastline); a loop in a rope; fasten with a bight

vagary collapse: an unexpected and inexplicable change in something (in a situation or a person's behavior, etc.); "the vagaries of the weather"; "his wealth fluctuates with the vagaries of the stock market"; "he has dealt with human vagaries for many years"

furcate collapse

fey collapse: slightly insane

gyrate collapse: to wind or move in a spiral course; "the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action"; "black smoke coiling up into the sky"; "the young people gyrated on the dance floor"

bifurcation collapse: the act of splitting into two branches; the place where something divides into two branches; a bifurcating branch (one or both of them)

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