Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In hunting, one who cranes at a fence. See
crane , intransitive verb, 2. - noun Hence One who flinches before difficulty or danger; a coward.
- noun An official in charge of a public crane for weighing.
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Voila donc ce que je voulais dire a ceux qui pensent que j'les met sur le net pour craner ....
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2005
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Therefore, the game becomes little more than a button-masher and joystick-craner.
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"When I wuz a child I played, 'chicken me craner crow' and would build little sand houses and call dem frog dens and we play hidin 'switches.
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