crane 
1. lifts and moves heavy objects; lifting tackle is suspended from a pivoted boom that rotates around a vertical axis • Hypernyms: lifting device • Hyponyms: davit, derrick, transporter 2. large long-necked wading bird of marshes and plains in many parts of the world • Hypernyms: wading bird, wader • Hyponyms: whooping crane, whooper, Grus americana • Member Holonyms: Gruidae, family Gruidae
stretch (the neck) so as to see better (Freq. 2) - The women craned their necks to see the President drive by • Syn: stretch out • Hypernyms: stretch, extend • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s something
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