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skycranes

skycranes is the plural of skycrane.

Meaning of skycrane

Noun

skycrane (plural skycranes)

  1. A helicopter that is used for hauling large loads.
    • The SHEDS exercise, conducted by American Export Isbrandtsen and Sikorsky in 1967, demonstrated that skycranes can unload containers, within the load limits of the helicopters, from a ship’s deck in weather which makes surface operations impossible.1970 March, Frank B. Case, “Contingencies, Container Ships, and Lighterage”, in Army Logistician, volume 2, page 21

Questions about skycranes

What is skycranes the plural of?
Skycranes is the plural of skycrane.

Words near skycranes in the dictionary

  1. skycloths
  2. skycoach
  3. skycoaches
  4. skycraft
  5. skycrane
  6. skycranes
  7. skycycle
  8. skycycles
  9. skydaddies
  10. skydaddy
  11. skydip

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skycranes (page history and authors); skycrane (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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