crankshaft
noun
crank·shaft
ˈkraŋk-ˌshaft 
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Built in 1922, the 4,350-square-foot structure once housed a machine shop that manufactured crankshafts.
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Brendel Hightower, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2025
The work included fitting such go-fast components as a Crower billet crankshaft, Manley titanium valves, an LSM custom camshaft, Kaase Boss cylinder heads, and a McLeod clutch and flywheel for the Tremec T56 Magnum six-speed manual transmission.
—Howard Walker, Robb Report, 3 Mar. 2025
True, the basic moving parts, such as pistons, crankshafts, and valves, remain largely unchanged, but everything else about the process of capturing energy from burning gasoline is in flux.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2018
Hidden inside an overhead-cam straight six, H6’s seven-bearing crankshaft was carved out of a 700-pound steel billet and weighed 90 pounds finished and polished.
—Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2025
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Brendel Hightower, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2025
The work included fitting such go-fast components as a Crower billet crankshaft, Manley titanium valves, an LSM custom camshaft, Kaase Boss cylinder heads, and a McLeod clutch and flywheel for the Tremec T56 Magnum six-speed manual transmission.
—Howard Walker, Robb Report, 3 Mar. 2025
True, the basic moving parts, such as pistons, crankshafts, and valves, remain largely unchanged, but everything else about the process of capturing energy from burning gasoline is in flux.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2018
Hidden inside an overhead-cam straight six, H6’s seven-bearing crankshaft was carved out of a 700-pound steel billet and weighed 90 pounds finished and polished.
—Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for crankshaft
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crankshaft
noun
crank·shaft
-ˌshaft
: a shaft turning or driven by a crank or made up of a series of cranks
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