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Definition of Crankest
1. crank [adj] - See also: crank
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crankest
Literary usage of Crankest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1890)
"J " He uses some of the crankest words you ever heard." CRASS. adj. Cantankerous,
peevish ; apparently a curious pronunciation of " cross." [Stow. ..."
2. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"For this Convention is unfortunately the crankest of machines: it shall be pointing
eastward with stiff violence this moment; and then do but touch some ..."
3. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1908)
"For this Convention is unfortunately the crankest of machines : it shall be
pointing eastward with stiff violence, ..."
4. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1838)
"For this Convention is unfortunately the crankest of machines: it shall be pointing
eastward, with stiff violence, this moment; and then do but touch some ..."
5. History of the French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle (1883)
"For this Convention is unfortunately the crankest of machines : it shall be
pointing eastward with stiff violence this moment; and then do but touch some ..."
6. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"For this Convention is unfortunately the crankest of machines: it shall be pointing
eastward with stiff violence this moment; and then do but touch some ..."
7. Publications by English Dialect Society (1890)
"J " He uses some of the crankest words you ever heard." CRASS. adj. Cantankerous,
peevish ; apparently a curious pronunciation of " cross." [Stow. ..."
8. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"For this Convention is unfortunately the crankest of machines: it shall be pointing
eastward with stiff violence this moment; and then do but touch some ..."
9. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1908)
"For this Convention is unfortunately the crankest of machines : it shall be
pointing eastward with stiff violence, ..."
10. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1838)
"For this Convention is unfortunately the crankest of machines: it shall be pointing
eastward, with stiff violence, this moment; and then do but touch some ..."
11. History of the French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle (1883)
"For this Convention is unfortunately the crankest of machines : it shall be
pointing eastward with stiff violence this moment; and then do but touch some ..."
12. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"For this Convention is unfortunately the crankest of machines: it shall be pointing
eastward with stiff violence this moment; and then do but touch some ..."
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