crank

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.

"I grind my coffee by hand with a coffee grinder with a crank handle."

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

"Yes, a crank was all it needed to start."

Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.

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."

(of a crank or similar) To turn.

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

Strange, weird, odd.

Sick; unwell

Similar: infirm

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

A highly addictive phenethylamine stimulant drug, similar to cocaine. Its systematic (IUPAC) name is (S)-N-methyl-1-phenylpropan-2-amine.

Similar: crystal, crystal meth, glass, ice, meth