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Meanings of little crank in English

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Usage of little crank in English
1
The log states she was a little crank, but an admirable sea-boat.
Captain Cook's Journal During His First Voyage Round the World /...
2
That there little one up top is Johnny; he's a little crank.
Johnny Bear, and Other Stories from Lives of the Hunted
3
He hates her, ugly little crank whore with her picking and her black teeth.
Chosen: a novel
4
She put the pencil in a hole in a little box and started working the little crank on the side.
Baartock
5
Most of the sewing-machines I have seen among this people are operated by hand,-witha sort of little crank....
Two Years in the French West Indies
6
He closed a small door in the side of the camera, placed his palm over the lens and turned the little crank several times around.
Jean of the Lazy A
7
The child of a common working woman, with no beauty, and a little crank of a Christian Scientist into the bargain, and yet now see!
Jewel: A Chapter in Her Life
8
With all his little cranks, he knows his business better than any man in the department; and then he's a gentleman, d'y see?
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896
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