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Crane vs Davit - What's the difference?

crane | davit |

In nautical terms the difference between crane and davit

is that crane is a forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc.; generally used in pairs while davit is a spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship.

As nouns the difference between crane and davit

is that crane is a large bird of the order Gruiformes and the family Gruidae having long legs and a long neck which it extends when flying while davit is a spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship.

As a verb crane

is to extend (one's neck).

As a proper noun Crane

is {{surname}.

crane

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A large bird of the order Gruiformes'' and the family ''Gruidae having long legs and a long neck which it extends when flying.
  • A mechanical lifting 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.

    • Derived terms

    * black crowned crane * black-necked crane * blue crane * common crane * cranefly * demoiselle crane * grey crowned crane * hooded crane * red-crowned crane * sandhill crane * sarus crane * Siberian crane * wattled crane * white-naped crane * whooping crane

    Related terms

    * (l), via Low German

    See also

    * egret * heron * stork

    Verb

    (cran)
  • To extend (one's neck).
    • (George Eliot)
  • To raise or lower with, or as if with, a .
  • * Bates
    • What engines, what instruments are used in craning up a soul, sunk below the centre, to the highest heavens.
  • * Massinger
    • an upstart craned up to the height he has

    Anagrams

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    davit

    English

    (wikipedia davit)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship.
  • (nautical, construction) A crane, often working in pairs and usually made of steel, used to lower things over an edge of a long drop off, such as lowering a maintenance trapeze down a building or launching a lifeboat over the side of a ship.
  • * 1912 , Morgan Robertson,
    • A solid, pyramid-like hummock of ice, left to starboard as the steamer ascended, and which projected close alongside the upper, or boat-deck, as she fell over, had caught, in succession, every pair of davits to starboard, bending and wrenching them, smashing boats, and snapping tackles and gripes, until, as the ship cleared herself, it capped the pile of wreckage strewing the ice in front of, and around it, with the end and broken stanchions of the bridge.

    Synonyms

    * (spar used to hoist the flukes of the anchor) fish davit