The Crane

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• Crane

  ·add. ·noun The American blue heron (Ardea herodias). II. Crane ·noun A siphon, or bent pipe, for d...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Crane

  (Isa. 38:14; Jer. 8:7). In both of these passages the Authorized Version has reversed the Hebrew ord...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• crane

  n. common English bird-name. InAustralia used for (1) the Native-Companion (q.v.), Grusaustralianus...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• crane

  A machine for raising and lowering great weights, by which timber and stores are hoisted upon wharfs...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Crane

  The crane (Grus cinerea) is a native of Europe and Asia. It stand about four feet high. Its color is...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Titan crane

  ·add. ·- A massive crane with an overhanging counterbalanced arm carrying a traveler and lifting cra...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Water crane

  ·- A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotiv...

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• Crane Court

  1) West out of Lambeth Hill in Castle Baynard Ward (O. and M. 1677-Elmes, 1831). Between Peter's Hil...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• nankeen crane

  or Nankeen Bird, or Nankeen Night Heron n. the Australian bird Nycticorax caledonicus, Gmel. Both ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• crane-barge

  A low flat-floored lump, fitted for the purpose of carrying a crane, in aid of marine works. ...

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• crane-lines

  Those which formerly went from the spritsail-topmast to the middle of the fore-stay, serving to stea...

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• steam-crane

  A crane worked by means of a steam-engine. ...

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• Three Crane Stairs

  At the south end of Queen Street, on the Thames, in Vintry Ward (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 13-Lockie...

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• Three Crane Street

  In Thames Street (Strype, ed. 1755). Not named in the maps. ...

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• Three Crane Tavern

  South out of Poultry, opposite St. Mildred's Church (Strype, maps, ed. 1720 and 1755). Cleared away...

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• Back Alley, Three Crane Lane

  A passage to the Thames out of Three Crane Lane (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, 1799). In Vintry Ward. The all...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.