adj

• (dialectal) Hard; difficult.
• (informal) Strange; weird; odd.
• (dialectal) Bent; twisted; crooked; distorted; out of repair.
• (nautical, of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
  "This ship is so crank and walty I fear our grave she will be!"

noun

• (now chiefly dialectal) An ailment, ache.
• (informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person.
  "Billy-Bob is a nasty old crank! He chased my cat away."
• (informal, British, dated in US) A person who is considered strange or odd by others, and may behave in unconventional ways.
  "John is a crank because he talks to himself."
• (informal) An amateur in science or other technical subjects who persistently advocates flawed theories.
  "That crank next door thinks he’s created cold fusion in his garage."

noun

• (archaic) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
  "So many turning cranks these have, so many crooks."
• (US, slang) Synonym of methamphetamine.
  "Danny got abscesses from shooting all that bathtub crank."
• (rare) A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
  "Quips and Cranks, and wanton Wiles,"
• (slang) The penis.
  "It was going to be hard not to blow with a girl like her sucking on his crank."

verb

• (transitive) To turn by means of a crank.
  "Motorists had to crank their engine by hand."
• (intransitive) To turn a crank.
  "He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank."
• (intransitive, of a crank or similar) To turn.
  "He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank."
• (transitive) To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
  "I turn the key and crank the engine; yet it doesn't turn over"