craning
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]craning
- present participle and gerund of crane
Noun
[edit]craning (plural cranings)
- 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 […]