How to pronounce “crane”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• Any bird of the family Gruidae, large birds with long legs and a long neck which is extended during flight.
• (US dialectal) Ardea herodias, the great blue heron.
• A mechanical lifting machine or device, often used for lifting heavy loads for industrial or construction purposes.
• An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace for supporting kettles etc. over the fire.
• A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask.
• (nautical) A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc.; generally used in pairs.
• [Verb]
• (ambitransitive) To extend (one's neck).
• (transitive) To raise or lower with, or as if with, a crane.
• (intransitive) To pull up before a jump.

Practice Nearby Words

stretch out, skull, head, boom, wheelchair, grue, truck, hoist, lifting, davit, lift, hok, keren, hak, crean, winch, gantry, lifter, derrick, stork, egret, bittern, ibis, jib, tower, picker, elevator, heron, elongate, curlew, stretch, extend, lengthen, common crane, grey crowned crane, blue crane, hooded crane, black-necked crane, wattled crane, red-crowned crane, crane fly, siberian crane, black crowned crane, cracticid, white-naped crane, demoiselle crane, whooping-crane, crake, african crake, whooping crane, drongo, coolung, brolga, crowned crane, colt, sandhill crane, eurasian crane, trumpeter crane, grebe, dicrurid, sarus crane, cranesbill, craw, crower, wading bird, grackle, crankbird, demoiselle, colombian crake, white crane, uniform crake, swan, crow, paradise crane, craik, gryllid, broadwing, coerebid, plantain-eater, gyrfalcon, roughwing, cornbird, pengornithid, certhiid, burhinid, seagull, balearic crane, whooper, screecher, neognath, great crest, guan, courser, icterid, sedge, stone curlew, roller, agami, avian, corncrake

Similar Sounds

crane, crain, craine, krane, krain, krein, crown, croon, crone, careen, cran, corinne, cron, chron, curran, crean, curren, caren, crine, kron, karine, crin, creen, crohn, corine, crame, kroon, carone, kareen, krohn, croan, krahn, kran, karun, cren, kren, krenn, carene, kraan, grain, grane, graine, grainne, grein, crime, cream, cane, chrome, crayon, crumb, cain, cray, kane, cram, creme, crim, crum, crome, caine, cranes, kareem, kern, cring, kayne, crem, karim, kain, crae, crom, chrom, kaine, kreme, kray, croom, carom, craned, kram, kearn, curn, krem, cayne, craney, krang, crimm, kirn, crumm, craner, crang, carum, cramm, kramm, craie, crambe, kerne, crym, crre, crei, correo, curtein