英语词汇“crane's-bill”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

crane's-bill

释义

crane¹ /krān/

noun

Any bird of the Gruidae, large wading birds with long legs, neck and bill
A machine for raising heavy weights, usu having a rotating boom from the end of which the lifting gear is hung
A travelling platform for a film camera
A bent pipe for drawing liquor out of a cask

transitive verb

To raise with a crane

intransitive verb and transitive verb

To stretch out the neck, usu in order to see better

ORIGIN: OE cran; Ger Kranich, Welsh garan

crānˈage noun

craneˈfly noun

A fly (genus Tipula) with very long legs, the daddy-long-legs

craneˈ-necked adjective

cranesˈbill or crane'sˈ-bill noun

Any wild species of the Geranium genus, from the beaked fruit

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