crane 
(krān)
(krān)n.
1.
a. Any of various large wading birds of the family Gruidae, having a long neck, long legs, and a long bill.
b. A similar bird, such as a heron.
2. A machine for hoisting and moving heavy objects by means of cables attached to a movable boom.
3. Any of various devices with a swinging arm, as in a fireplace for suspending a pot.
v. craned, cran·ing, cranes
v.tr.
1. To hoist or move with or as if with a crane.
2. To strain and stretch (the neck, for example) in order to see better.
v.intr.
1. To stretch one's neck toward something for a better view.
2. To be irresolute; hesitate.
[Middle English, from Old English cran; see gerə-2 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]
cranetop: gray crowned crane
Balearica regulorum
bottom: mechanical crane at a construction site
crane- shooting stick
- shoot in the foot
- shoot off face
- shoot off mouth
- shoot off one's face
- shoot off one's mouth
- shoot off (one's) mouth/face
- shoot (one's) bolt
- shoot one's bolt
- shoot (oneself) in the foot
- shoot oneself in the foot
- shoot (one's) wad
- shoot one's wad
- shootout
- shoot-out
- shoot straight
- shoot the breeze
- shoot the breeze/bull
- shoot the bull
- shoot-the-chute
- shoot the shit
- shoot the works
- shoot up
- shoot-up
- shoot wad