to crank the handle

Examples

• All

• Slowly, she cranked the handle on the side of the gramophone.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Then he tilted the camera down, its lens pointed at the open water, and he cranked the handle forward so that before one scene ended, the next one would begin.

  Fiction book (1996)

• When you have this in place, you simply crank the handle.

  Blog text (24)

• OK, But you could equally well crank the handle backwards and work out the state of electron in the past.

• To start the old engine, you need to crank the handle several times.

• Every morning, I crank the handle on my coffee grinder to prepare fresh coffee.

• He taught his son how to crank the handle of the toy music box to play the melody.

Synonyms

T

to turn on

vsto crank the handle

550 1.0

To make a machine or device start working

starts machines by turning a handle rather than using a switch or button

C

to crank

vsto crank the handle

61 4.5

To turn a handle to make a machine work

uses a general handle turning motion to operate or start machines

W

to wind up

vsto crank the handle

14 4.4

Turn a watch or toy spring so it starts to work

uses handle turning to start machines rather than winding a spring

C

to crank up

vsto crank the handle

2 4.4

To start a machine by turning a handle

is the simple action of turning a handle to operate or start machinery

How Hard

to pump

83 2.3

to crank the handle

1 3.7

push-button

1 3.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology