OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 11374

crane

/kɹeɪn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
grulla • grúa
Any bird of the family Gruidae, large birds with long legs and a long neck which is extended during flight.
Aquatic birds of various kinds are very numerous, such as geese, darters (Flotus melanogaster), scissor-bills (Rhynchops nigra), adjutants (Leptoptilos argala), pelicans, cormorant…
cabria • grúa • guinche • güinche • huinche • machina • titán • winch • wincha • winche • wincher • árgano
A mechanical lifting machine or device, often used for lifting heavy loads for industrial or construction purposes.
Large cranes were virtually non-existent in the areas I worked with this truck, so we jacked everything on and off[.]
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 11375

crane

/kɹeɪn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
estirar el cuello • tener el cuello caído
To extend (one's neck).
Didcot had one definite pleasure. We knew that little boys would be going up and down the platform singing out, "Banbury cakes! Banbury cakes!" And mother would crane out and buy s…
and my bachelor's hearth is imbedded where by much craning of head and neck I can catch sight of a sycamore in the Square garden,
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