What is "cranking"

Usage examples of "cranking".

The ship lights pulsed way down, cranking up the stars to laser intensity as Clio watched through the viewport.

The driver was already cranking up the motor, anxious to begin his drive back to Pismo Beach before the tide turned and they got bogged down again.

The winchman continued cranking, and the burning section of rope dropped from sight as the infant was lowered deeper into the abyss.

That is my last real memory of Al Davis: It was getting dark in Oakland, the rest of the team had already gone into the showers, the coach was inside speaking sagely with a gaggle of local sportswriters, somewhere beyond the field-fence a big jet was cranking up its afterburners on the airport runway.

Harry Whittington, and fellow graduate student Derek Briggs, Conway Morris spent the next several years making a systematic revision of the entire collection, and cranking out one exciting monograph after another as discovery piled upon discovery.

Cranking the charging lever back and letting it snap forward, she leaped up onto the hood, clambered onto the roof, then made the short leap to the cinderblock wall.

Cranking the throttle, he shot off and headed for the nearest canyonlike intersection that would allow him to lose himself in the city.

Cranking the throttle, he shot off and headed for the nearest canyonlike intersec­ tion that would allow him to lose himself in the city.

Standard forged pistons and connecting rods can't handle the kind of power you're going to be cranking out, so we've replaced them with super tough Venola forged blower pistons, Crower rods with big, heavy, stiff bolts, and a magnefluxed crankshaft.

Liesel Bodamer, just two months older than Emrich, stopped cranking the rollers and came round to the other side of the duplicating machine.

Liesel, we—you and me—are going to be cranking this duplicating machine until the day we die.

Here street-lights had been taken out by BB guns from the estates, and the only illumination was cold cubes of ultraviolet in the shops, installed to stop addicts cranking up in the doorways by making their own arm veins invisible.

Under the first Watchman's urgings they shuffled over to heave at the big wheel that raised the thick bar across the gates, then turned their efforts to cranking the gates open.

This group of soldiers also had a cassette player, only theirs was cranking out African music at full volume.

Perez Prado was cranking out Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White.