craning

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craning

  1. present participle and gerund of crane

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craning (plural cranings)

  1. The act of one who cranes.
    • 1902, Joseph Conrad, “The End of the Tether”, in Youth: A Narrative: And Two Other Stories, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and sons, →OCLC, page 255:
      His slow volubility, the sideways cranings of his neck, the black glances out of the very corners of his eyes []

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