CRANK
, a contrivance in machines, in manner of an elbow, only of a square form; projecting out from an axis, or spindle; and serving, by its rotation, to raise and fall the pistons of engines for raising water, or the like.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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