cranked, ppl. a.
(kræŋkt)
[f. crank n. and v.]
† 1. ? Twisted, crooked, tortuous. (In quot. fig.)
| 1550 Bale Image Both Ch. C j b, The most cranked vylynesse of oure synnes. |
† 2. Crinkled, wrinkled. Obs. (Cf. crank v.1 2.)
| a 1700 B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Cranked shells or Stones, wrinkled or wreathed. |
3. Formed into or furnished with a crank. cranked tool (in Wood-turning): see quot. 1881.
| 1862 Smiles Engineers III. 102 The mechanical skill of the country was not equal to the task of forging cranked axles. c 1865 J. Wylde in Circ. Sc. I. 252/2 The..action resembles that of a double-cranked..steam-engine. 1881 Mechanic §569 Cranked or internal tools..are used for turning recesses in a piece of wood. 1885 Bazaar 30 Mar. 1273/1 Humber bicycle..cranked handles. |
4. Aeronaut. Of an aircraft wing or an aircraft with such a wing: see quot. 1959.
| 1939 War Illustr. 18 Nov. 295 It [sc. the Junker 87] has a distinctive ‘cranked’ wing. 1959 F. D. Adams Aeronaut Dict. 52 Cranked wing, a wing whose spanwise axis abruptly departs from a straight line, as seen either in planform or in a vertical plane. A gull wing is one form of cranked wing. 1961 Flight LXXX. 396/1 The cranked delta has four lift engines in the centre. |