Noun: crane
| Singular | crane |
| Plural | cranes |
Sample Sentences
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Aquatic birds of various kinds are very numerous, such as geese, darters (Flotus melanogaster), scissor-bills (Rhynchops nigra), adjutants (Leptoptilos argala), pelicans, cormorants, cranes (Grus antigone, in Burmese gyoja), whimbrels, plovers, and ibises. [1876, "Burmah" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 552]
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Large cranes were virtually non-existent in the areas I worked with this truck, so we jacked everything on and off[.] [2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 111:]
Nouns inflected like crane
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English crane, from Old English cran (“crane”), from Proto-West Germanic *kran, *kranō, from Proto-Germanic *kranô (“crane”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to cry hoarsely”).
2. Cognate with Scots cran (“crane”), Dutch kraan (“crane”), German Low German Kroon (“crane”), German Kran (“crane”). The mechanical devices are named from their likeness to the bird. See: Middle English Nouns '
crane', Old English Nouns '
cran', Dutch Nouns '
kraan', German Nouns '
Kran'.
Verbs referencing "crane"
Latin Nouns
grus, German Nouns
Kran, Ancient Greek Nouns
γέρανος, Irish Nouns
craein, French Nouns
crône.