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crank pin

crank pin is the alternative form of crankpin.

Meaning of crankpin

Noun

crankpin (plural crankpins)

  1. The pin that attaches a connecting rod to a crank.
    • Three independent sets of Walschaerts valve gear are provided, those for the outside cylinders being driven by return cranks placed on the driving crankpins, and by crosshead arms attached to the crossheads.1956 April, “"Merchant Navy" Class Pacific Modified”, in Railway Magazine, page 209

Forms of crank pin

pluralcrank pins

Questions about crank pin

What is crank pin the alternative form of?
Crank pin is the alternative form of crankpin.

Words near crank pin in the dictionary

  1. crank letters
  2. crank off
  3. crank one out
  4. crank one's hog
  5. crank out
  6. crank pin
  7. crank pins
  8. crank science
  9. crank sciences
  10. crank shaft
  11. crank shafts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crank pin (page history and authors); crankpin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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