What is "crank handle"

Usage examples of "crank handle".

In the middle of the submarine, Seaman Simpkins's head jerked back against the inside of the hull, then forward against the crank handle, rendering him immediately unconscious.

The crank handle was mounted on a spoked wheel the size of a carriage wheel.

He lifted her out of danger with one arm and with the other hand snagged the crank handle.

Gosset paced slowly and purposefully across the floor, reached one trembling hand out toward the crank handle on the wardrobe door, and swung the thing open so wildly as to nearly tear it off its hinges.

He hauled himself erect in the stern seat, clutching the tiller tightly between his hands, bleeding from the harsh rasping caused by the rusty crank handle.

The means specified in AN 01-190FB-1 Pilot's Handbook of Flight Operating Instructions for Navy Model FM-2 Airplanes (As Amended) specifies that the pilot will turn the landing gear handcrank located on the right side of the cockpit approximately twenty-eight times until the crank handle hits a stop indicating the landing gear has been fully extended.

Then she hooked the other end over the butt of her weapon and whirled the crank handle around half a dozen times.

The air scavenger still was not working but there was a fitting to crank it by hand-all but the crank handle, which was missing.