What does crank mean?
Crank means (dialectal) Hard; difficult..
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/ˈkɹæŋk/ · adjective
(dialectal) Hard; difficult..
This ship is so crank and walty I fear our grave she will be!
The stowage was clumsily done, and the vessel consequently crank.
He who was a little before bedred[…]was now cranke and lustie.
If you strong electioners did not think you were among the elect, you would not be so crank about it.
Billy-Bob is a nasty old crank! He chased my cat away.
Violent of temper; subject to sudden cranks.
John is a crank because he talks to himself.
Persons whom the Americans since Guiteau’s trial have begun to designate as ‘cranks’—that is to say, persons of disordered mind, in whom the itch of notoriety supplies the lack of any higher ambition.
Use crank when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Crank means (dialectal) Hard; difficult..
Common synonyms include infirm, kook, odd duck, weirdo.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
This ship is so crank and walty I fear our grave she will be!
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