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hand-cranked

hand-cranked adjective: operated by means of a hand crank.

Adjective

hand-cranked (not comparable)

  1. Operated by means of a hand crank.
    • Action such as this, filmed under great difficulty with a bulky, hand-cranked camera, revealed the possibilities of the movies and was quite startling in those early days.1958 February, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 87

Questions about hand-cranked

What does hand-cranked mean?
Hand-cranked means operated by means of a hand crank.
What part of speech is hand-cranked?
Hand-cranked is an adjective.

Words near hand-cranked in the dictionary

  1. hand-carrying
  2. hand-cart
  3. hand-carts
  4. hand-code
  5. hand-cooked
  6. hand-cranked
  7. hand-deliver
  8. hand-delivered
  9. hand-delivering
  10. hand-delivers
  11. hand-dipped

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