crankness

• a word derived from crank.
  crank

  noun

  any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.

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crankness

Okay, so now maybe you’re thinking that, if those diets work, why write a whole column about their crankness?

From Washington Post ● Jan. 23, 2023

Loading must be done with unusual care, as the slightest crankness of such frail craft in such wild waters is likely to prove fatal.

From All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways by William Charles Henry Wood

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