different between crane vs dogman

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?e?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English cran, from Old English cran (“crane”), from Proto-Germanic *kranô (“crane”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh?- (“to cry hoarsely”). Cognate with Scots cran (“crane”), Dutch kraan (“crane”), German Kran (“crane”). The mechanical devices are named from their likeness to the bird.

Noun

crane (plural cranes)

1. Any bird of the family Gruidae, large birds with long legs and a long neck which is extended during flight.
   • 1876, "Burmah" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 552:

     Aquatic birds of various kinds are very numerous, such as geese, darters (Flotus melanogaster), scissor-bills (Rhynchops nigra), adjutants (Leptoptilos argala), pelicans, cormorants, cranes (Grus antigone, in Burmese gyoja), whimbrels, plovers, and ibises.

2. (US, dialect) Ardea herodias, the great blue heron.
3. A mechanical lifting machine or device, often used for lifting heavy loads for industrial or construction purposes.
4. An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace for supporting kettles etc. over the fire.
5. A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask.
6. (nautical) A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc.; generally used in pairs.

Hyponyms

• Gruidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Derived terms

(Lifting devices):

Related terms

• cranberry, via German Low German Kraan (“crane”)

Descendants

Translations

See also

• egret
• heron
• stork

Verb

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

1. (transitive, intransitive) To extend (one's neck).
   • 1879, George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such

     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,

2. (transitive) To raise or lower with, or as if with, a crane.
   • 1619, Philip Massinger and Nathan Field, The Fatal Dowry

     an upstart craned up to the height he has

3. (intransitive) To pull up before a jump.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

crane (plural cranes)

1. (obsolete) The cranium.

Anagrams

• Caren, Carne, Cerna, Crean, Rance, caner, caren, crena, nacre, nacré, rance, recan

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English cran, *crana, from Proto-Germanic *kranô.

Alternative forms

• krane, cranne, craane, crone, craune

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kra?n(?)/, /kran/

Noun

crane (plural cranes)

2. crane (bird)
3. crane (machine)

Derived terms

• cranage

Descendants

• English: crane (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: cran

References

• “cr?ne, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-07.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French cran, from Medieval Latin cr?nium.

Alternative forms

• cranee

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kra?n/

Noun

crane

2. cranium

References

• “cr?ne, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-07.

English

Etymology

dog +? -man

Pronunciation

Noun

dogman (plural dogmen)

1. (Australia, New Zealand) An assistant to a crane operator, responsible for securing the crane's load and directing the operator.
   • 1998, Meredith Burgmann, Verity Burgmann, Green Bans, Red Union: Environmental Activism and the New South Wales Builders Labourers? Federation, page 108,

     Accordingly, during 1972 the union embarked upon a concerted campaign to enforce the use of two dogmen on each crane.

   • 2005, Henry Pollack, The Accidental Developer: The Fascinating Rise to the Top of Mirvac Founder Henry Pollack, page 243,

     The usual crane crew required for operation of the site was one crane driver and two dogmen, but the BLF insisted that the builder keep a relief crane driver and a relief dogman permanently on site.

   • 2010, Raymond D. Clements, Aussie Rogue, page 59,

     The only work I had done as a dogman was to use a crane on the back of a truck ‘slinging loads’ and work the crane and truck myself.

2. A man who trains dogs for the bloodsport of dogfighting.
3. (cryptozoology) An alleged cryptid that is part man, part dog.
4. Alternative form of dog man

Translations

Anagrams

• godman

Esperanto

Adjective

dogman

1. accusative singular of dogma