craned

Verb

crane (third-person singular simple present cranes, present participle craning, simple past and past participle craned)

1. (ambitransitive) To extend (one's neck).
   • and my bachelor's hearth is imbedded where by much craning of head and neck I can catch sight of a sycamore in the Square garden,1879, George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such
2. (transitive) To raise or lower with, or as if with, a crane.
   • What engines, what instruments are used in craning up a soul, sunk below the centre, to the highest heavens.1693, William Bates, Sermons preach'd on Several Occasions
3. (intransitive) To pull up before a jump.

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