Crank up the heater.

And you crank it several times.

But he is a crank and quite uneducated.

I expect they laugh at their crank of a master?'

You can see, this is the generator. It's a crank generator.

Hey! I don't want any crank calls not at this hour.

The motor in your brain begins to crank, and you want this person.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

I grind my coffee by hand with a coffee grinder with a crank handle.

Now, suppose that same crank attempted to treat passersby as if they were his serfs.

MOSCOW Imagine a crank who tries to pass himself off as a nineteenth century Russian baron.

Later C2 2 2.7 (and early 1987 B3 2.7) used the M20B25 block with ETA (325e) crank and rods.

The only institution that can crank up the printing press the European Central Bank will never resort to monetization of fiscal deficits.

'Oh, he is such a crank!' said Oblonsky with his smoothest and most almondy smile. 'But come! I think the ballot has begun...'

It is a sad testament to Russia s current mindset that it is Solzhenitsyn the anti modernist crank who is being remembered, not Solzhenitsyn the towering foe of Soviet barbarism and mendacity.

It is all very well to be a crank, to be sincere and dislike hypocrisy I know that very well but what you are saying has either no meaning at all or a very bad meaning.

He asked how his friend the crank was getting on with his young wife, and having glanced at the ill matched horses and the patched mud guard of the calèche, offered the ladies seats in the char a bane.

You submitted your task to the mainframe, where it sat in a queue awaiting its turn to be processed. Computer scientists like Emtage spent hours waiting for printers to crank out their jobs on massive sheets of dot matrix paper.

Joe was what a lot of people might think of as a whistle blower, except that like almost all whistle blowers, he wasn't a crank at all, he was passionately devoted to the organization and the higher purposes that that organization served.