What is the difference between crank and spider?

In lang=en terms the difference between crank and spider

is that crank is penis while spider is part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.

As an adjective crank

is strange, weird, odd.

crank

English

Adjective

(er)

(slang) strange, weird, odd

sick; unwell; infirm

(nautical, of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast

Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.

* Udall

He who was, a little before, bedrid, was now crank and lusty.

* Mrs. Stowe

If you strong electioners did not think you were among the elect, you would not be so crank about it.

Noun

(en noun)

A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.(rfex)

The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.

Yes, a crank was all it needed to start .

(archaic) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.

* (rfdate) Spenser:

So many turning cranks these have, so many crooks.

(informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person

Billy-Bob is a nasty old crank ! He chased my cat away.

A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion.

* Carlyle

Violent of temper; subject to sudden cranks .

(informal, British, dated in US) A person who is considered strange or odd by others. They may behave in unconventional ways.

John is a crank because he talks to himself .

* 1882 January 14, in Pall Mall Gazette :

Persons whom the Americans since Guiteau's trial have begun to designate as ‘cranks’ —that is to say, persons of disordered mind, in whom the itch of notoriety supplies the lack of any higher ambition.

(informal) An advocate of a pseudoscience movement.

That crank next door thinks he's created cold fusion in his garage.

(US, slang) methamphetamine.

Danny got abscesses from shooting all that bathtub crank .

(rare) A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.

* (rfdate) Milton:

Quips, and cranks , and wanton wiles.

(obsolete) A sick person; an invalid.

* Burton

Thou art a counterfeit crank , a cheater.

(slang) penis.

* 2013 , Reggie Chesterfield, Scoundrel (page 57)

It was going to be hard not to blow with a girl like her sucking on his crank .

Synonyms

* See also .

Verb

(en verb)

To turn by means of a crank .

Motorists had to crank their engine by hand.

To turn a crank .

He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.

To turn.

He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank .

To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.

I turn the key and crank the engine; yet it doesn't turn over

Crank it up!

To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.

Quit cranking about your spilt milk!

To be running at a high level of output or effort.

By one hour into the shift, the boys were really cranking .

(dated) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.

* (rfdate) :

See how this river comes me cranking in.

Derived terms

* crank axle * crank call * crankcase * crank out * crankpin * crank pin * crank shaft * crankstart * crank start * crank up * crank wheel * cranky * turn someone's crank

spider

English

Noun

(en noun)

Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae , most of which spin webs to catch prey.

(Internet) A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.

(chiefly, Australia, and, New Zealand) A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).

* 2002', Katharine Gasparini, ''Cranberry and vanilla ice cream '''spider'' , recipe in ''Cool Food , page 339.

(slang) A spindly person.

(slang) A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.

(snooker, billiards) A stick with a convex arch-shaped notched head used to support the cue when the cue ball is out of reach at normal extension; a bridge.

(cookware, US, UK, historical) A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.

* 1846 , Mary Hooker Cornelius, The Young Housekeeper's Friend , page 146, recipe 28 “To fry salt pork”:

Cut slices and lay them in cold water in the spider'; boil them up two or three minutes, then pour off the water and set the ' spider again on the coals and brown the slices on each side.

* 2005 , Marty Davidson, Grandma Grace's Southern Favorites , recipe for “strawberry coconuts”, Rutledge Hill Press, ISBN 1-4016-0219-3, page 193:

In spider pan or deep skillet set over hot coals, quickly fry a few at a time in deep lard until brown.

* 2008 , Corona Club (San Francisco, California), Corona Club Cook Book , page 202,

Melt ½ the dry sugar in the spider , stirring with knife until all is melted.

(cookware) Implement for moving food in and out of hot oil for deep frying, with a circular metal mesh attached to a long handle.

* 1996 , City and Guilds of London Institute, Food preparation and cooking. Cookery units. Student guide. , Stanley Thornes, ISBN 0-7487-2566-0, unit 2ND5, element 2, page 157:

If you are deep-frying your falafel, use a spider or basket to place them gently into the hot oil, which should be preheated to a temperature of 175°C (330°F).

* 2008 , Anna Kasabian and David Kasabian, The Wild Fish Cookbook , Creative Publishing International, ISBN 1-58923-317-4, page 84:

Consider investing in a frying basket or a spider' for small amounts of fish. A ' spider looks like a metal web and has a long handle and can lower and raise fish from the hot oil.

A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached

(slang) Heroin (street drug).

(music) Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.

A skeleton or frame with radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces, such as a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; or a frame for strengthening a core or mould for a casting.

Derived terms

* (assassin spider) * (coconut spider) * (pelican spider) * spiderdom * spidership * spidery

Verb

(en verb)

(Internet, of a computer program) to follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.

''The online dictionary is regularly spidered by search engines.

Derived terms

* Web spidering

Anagrams

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