a person with strange or odd ideas
"The river zigzags through the countryside"
"crank up the engine"
Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles.
出自: Milton
Things, which..Still serve to ballast, with convenient words, A few crank arguments for speeching lords.
出自: fig.
Hard, tough, crank, gutt'ral, harsh, stiff names.
出自: Swift
See how this river comes me cranking in, And cuts me from the best of all my land..a monstrous cantle out.
出自:1 Henry IV , Shakespeare
The car refused to start again...She cranked away until she was breathless.
出自: J. B. Priestley
The taxi-driver..got out of his seat and cranked up the engine.
出自: E. Waugh
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