hand-crank

Speaking of handy tools, while Premo boasts a toy adding machine, we have a Burroughs hand-crank job, circa 1900, Bud bought for $10 from his friends at the typewriter repair place, who overhauled it for good measure before they sent it off with him.

Red Room: Fran Moreland Johns: Your Stuff as 'Art' Red Room 2011

Speaking of handy tools, while Premo boasts a toy adding machine, we have a Burroughs hand-crank job, circa 1900, Bud bought for $10 from his friends at the typewriter repair place, who overhauled it for good measure before they sent it off with him.

Red Room: Fran Moreland Johns: Your Stuff as 'Art' Red Room 2011

Plus: This hand-crank device, which requires neither electricity nor rock salt to produce delectable frozen sweets, is a compact alternative to the traditional wooden-bucket-style manual ice-cream makers.

WSJ Test Kitchen: Ice Cream Makers Laura Moser 2011

I learned in typing class (during the aforementioned dark ages, on an actual typewriter with a hand-crank return) that two is proper.

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » One space, or two? 2009

I was young, poorly paid and grateful merely to have a reliable car that sipped gasoline—never mind the tiny engine, hand-crank windows and lack of prestige conveyed by the car's boxy, hatchback profile.

Auto Makers Sweeten the Recipe for Small Cars Joseph B. White 2011

Getty Images Among the early efforts to foolproof cars: replacing hand-crank starters with electric ones.

Electronic Fixes for Driver Error Joseph B. White 2011

The second one was given by my work buds, and I remember that they put a baby doll in the hand-crank swing they bought me and made “him” a boy-shaped extremity out of blue balloons … except he turned out to be a girl.

Is there such a thing as a feminist baby shower game? « Dating Jesus 2009

(Jay, did that machine have a wringer attached to it, where each piece of laundry would be forced between rollers controlled by a hand-crank in order to squeeze the water out before the laundry would be taken out to the clothesline?)

Blame Cynical for this one: « Dating Jesus 2009

The hand-crank/solar-powered Eton Scorpion radio is also a flashlight, a bottle opener, and a mobile phone charger.

The Great Tech-doors 2010

"I am either going to do the last races on my own two legs, riding on a hand-crank bike, or have my ashes carried over the finish line by a friend—but I will finish," says Mr. Arthur, who retired from his job in accounting in 1998 and lives in New York.

Second Acts Kristi Essick 2011