Provider of a big lift

Usage examples of crane.

The only motion she managed was to crane her neck to see Amani and the patients.

Crane and Mavranos stood braced on the gray-painted tar paper deck as the engine gunned and the boat surged gently out onto the face of the water, and they watched the palm trees and boat masts and low buildings of Balboa Island draw closer.

Rounding a Turn of the uphill road, they looked out on a broad panorama of the base: docks, cranes, nests of destroyers and of submarines-and the terrible smashed half-sunk battleships, burned-out aircraft, and blackened skeletal hangars.

Crane Women led Biri and Michael from the forest, moving south to cross the border at another point.

Michael came out of his hut and saw Biri in the middle of the mound with the Crane Women.

The crane was tall enough to provide them decent cover, but its bridgework was no sure protection from laser fire.

The Crane Hearth once had a high status, and there had been people in other Camps who had been willing to sponsor them, but there had always been dissenters, and there could be no dissenters.

Forum he walked behind his lictors, never once craning his neck to verify what awaited him at the bottom of the Clivus Argentarius.

The tackle belonging to the crane being hauled from outside, the mouth of the Columbiad was instantly disencumbered of its last supports.

A group of very young warriors, under the command of the Three Stooges, were working on what I can only describe as a piece of heavy artillerya big cannon, surrounded by computerlike consoles and several large cranes.

The docks were crowded with oil tankers, bulk carriers, containerships, and tramp freighters of every make and tonnage, flying flags from all nations, although it was sometimes difficult to see those flags through the forest of cranes working to load and unload cargo.

After watching for a while with its head craned forward, the cowbird extended its wings and flapped after its host.

Ayla was craning her neck to look at the exquisitely crafted tools nestled in the soft leather on the ground, not daring to touch.

But it was adorned here and there with cranes, guns, a wee crenellated castle, and other curios.

I can explain, for to-day in the Eastlake Hospital, I was with a dying man, who confessed that about a year and a half ago he was standing idly on the docks, when he saw a gentleman suddenly struck on the back of his head by the swinging arm of a huge crane, used for lifting heavy weights to and from the shipping.