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- noun Plural form of
crankshaft .
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Examples
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Bob Armey, president of Rutter Armey, a machine shop that works on specialty items such as crankshafts, textile rolls and food-processing equipment, says he can barely find machinists who know how to handle manual machines.
Why does Fresno have thousands of job openings - and high unemployment? Michael A. Fletcher 2011
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Hot-rodders of 40 years ago would toughen their crankshafts and connecting rods by shot-peening them after the machining process.
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Bharat Forge, a maker of stuff like axles and crankshafts for big truck manufacturers in the U.S. and Europe, was staring at a flurry of order cancellations.
The New Bharat Forge 2010
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Bharat Forge, a maker of stuff like axles and crankshafts for big truck manufacturers in the U.S. and Europe, was staring at a flurry of order cancellations.
The New Bharat Forge 2010
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(Compounders use the exhaust pressure to spin power into the crankshafts, instead of using it to compress the intake charge as on a turbocharger.)
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(Compounders use the exhaust pressure to spin power into the crankshafts, instead of using it to compress the intake charge as on a turbocharger.)
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AFP/Getty Images A local worker assembling new crankshafts in the Hungarian factory of German auto maker Opel.
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(Compounders use the exhaust pressure to spin power into the crankshafts, instead of using it to compress the intake charge as on a turbocharger.)
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The cars 'crankshafts keep spinning when the driver hits the brakes.
Steve Parker: Formula 1 shocker; new Brawn GP team wins it all 2009
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In Berlin, an American commercial attaché wrote that American manufacturers were selling Germany crankshafts, cylinder heads, control systems for anti-aircraft guns, and components sufficient to make about a hundred planes a month.
Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008
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