crane

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /kɹeɪn/ (Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /kɹæɪn/ (Scotland) IPA(key): /kɾen/ (Wales, without the pane–pain merger) IPA(key): /kɾeːn/ Rhymes: -eɪn === Etymology 1 === From Middle English crane, from Old English cran (“crane”), from Proto-West Germanic *kran, *kranō, from Proto-Germanic *kranô (“crane”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to cry hoarsely”). Cognate with Scots cran (“crane”), Dutch kraan (“crane”), German Low German Kroon (“crane”), German Kran (“crane”). The mechanical devices are named from their likeness to the bird. ==== Noun ==== crane (plural cranes) Any bird of the family Gruidae, large birds with long legs and a long neck which is extended during flight. 1876, "Burmah" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 552: Aquatic birds of various kinds are very numerous, such as geese, darters (Flotus melanogaster), scissor-bills (Rhynchops nigra), adjutants (Leptoptilos argala), pelicans, cormorants, cranes (Grus antigone, in Burmese gyoja), whimbrels, plovers, and ibises. (US dialectal) Ardea herodias, the great blue heron. A mechanical lifting machine or device, often used for lifting heavy loads for industrial or construction purposes. An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace for supporting kettles etc. over the fire. A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask. (nautical) A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc.; generally used in pairs. ===== Hyponyms ===== Category:Gruidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons ===== Derived terms ===== (Lifting devices): ===== Related terms ===== cranberry, via German Low German Kraan (“crane”) ===== Descendants ===== ===== Translations ===== ===== See also ===== egret heron stork ==== Verb ==== crane (third-person singular simple present cranes, present participle craning, simple past and past participle craned) (ambitransitive) To extend (one's neck). (transitive) To raise or lower with, or as if with, a crane. (intransitive) To pull up before a jump. ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English crane, cranee, from Old French cran, from Medieval Latin crānium. ==== Noun ==== crane (plural cranes) (obsolete) The cranium. === Etymology 3 === ==== Noun ==== crane (plural cranes) Alternative form of cran (“measure of herrings”). === Anagrams === recan, caren, Crean, Caren, rance, Carne, ancré, nacre, Rance, Nérac, nacré, Cerna, caner, crena == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === Inherited from Old English cran, *crana, from Proto-West Germanic *kran, *kranō. ==== Alternative forms ==== craane, cranne, craune, krane crone (West Midland) ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈkraːn(ə)/, /kran/ ==== Noun ==== crane (plural cranes) crane (bird) crane (machine) ===== Derived terms ===== cranage ===== Descendants ===== English: crane (see there for further descendants) Scots: cran ⇒ Yola: kraanberry, kraaneberry ===== References ===== “crāne, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 7 July 2018. === Etymology 2 === Borrowed from Old French cran, from Medieval Latin crānium. ==== Alternative forms ==== cranee ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /kraːn/ ==== Noun ==== crane cranium ===== Descendants ===== English: crane (obsolete) ===== References ===== “crāne, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 7 July 2018.