crane
/kɹeɪn/ verb C2- To extend (one's neck).
- To raise or lower with, or as if with, a crane.
- To pull up before a jump.
He/she/it cranes · Past craned · Past participle craned · -ing form craning
Verb forms
- Base form
- crane
- He/she/it
- cranes
- Past
- craned
- Past participle
- craned
- -ing form
- craning
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## The Wolf and the Crane
A WOLF who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane, for a large sum, to put her head into his mouth and draw out the bone.
When the Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised payment, the Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: “Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a wolf.”
Besides, I am no Crane, I am a Stork, a bird of excellent character; and see how I love and slave for my father and mother.
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