CRANK
- right-angled lever used to operate a machine
- ill-tempered person
- person with strange ideas
- to start by turning a crank
- to start manually [v -ED, -ING, -S] / lively (full of energy) [adj CRANKER, CRANKEST]
- to cause to diminish or terminate
- to incorporate as an integral part
- to make or produce in a mass-production, effortless, or mechanical way
- to get started or ready
- to stimulate, activate, or produce
- to increase one's efforts, output, etc.