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- adjective
superlative form ofcrank : mostcrank .
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Convention is unfortunately the crankest of machines: it shall be pointing eastward, with stiff violence, this moment; and then do but touch some spring dexterously, the whole machine, clattering and jerking seven-hundred-fold, will whirl with huge crash, and, next moment, is pointing westward!
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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