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Answer for the clue "Started the Model T ", 7 letters:
cranked

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Word definitions for cranked in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cranked \Cranked\ (kr[a^ ng]kt), a. Formed with, or having, a bend or crank; as, a cranked axle.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Formed with, or having, a bend or crank. v (en-past of: crank )

Usage examples of cranked.

One of the two troopers escorting them whirled with the preternatural speed of jumped-up cyborg reflexes, and cranked off a couple of antipersonnel grenades from the launcher built into his left elbow.

At 0400 hours we were awake, and at 0545 we cranked up and flew the troops to an already secured LZ north of Lima to group with another Cav unit for the big push.

Lubin gave thanks for cells forcibly overcrowded with mitochondria, for trimeric antibodies, for macrophage and lymphokine and fibroblast production cranked up to twice the mammalian norm.

The mother and kid got in and Rinker screamed at them to lie in the footwell on the passenger side and they crawled into it and she cranked the engine and eased out of the parking slot and accelerated away, then slowed, took a corner, took another, and was on the street, driving out.

From the inside, he is cranked up worse than a teen, a year before the flood of gonadotrophin that might account for it.

And nothing on the Way would stop the Tank Section of Hammers Slammers when it got cranked up to move.

When the lockset on the outside of the door was cranked open, he was wide awake and straining to make out the footfalls of his jailers before they entered the room.

I stayed at home and cranked up my stereo, Mathis der Maler again, in a desperate attempt to drown out the faintest whisper of any echoes.

Most of the professors were gone, and the boom boxes in various labs were cranked up, filling the corridor with a cacophony of sound--mostly American pop music, but also multiethnic stuff in a variety of languages.

His superiors in the church were horrified, but McLaughlin gave them the back of his hand and, instead, merely cranked up his speechmaking act.

Men ran to their stations, tanks cranked their engines, anti-aircraft batteries pounded from the hill behind him.

Tracy climbed in, started the engine, and cranked the airconditioner up on High, still trying to puzzle out why Burke had broken the mold.

The minute Becca was out the door, Dan stuck Sheryl Crow on the stereo and cranked it.

Passengers were not entitled to have access to the collective and cyclic, and the antitorque pedals were supposed to be cranked back far enough that the uninitiated did not accidentally push them with their feet.

Rose was one of those deep-thicket Baptists who begin to twist the tails of their words when they are emotionally cranked up.