| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
|---|
| crane's long arm |
boom
|
| crane on ship |
davit
|
| crane-like device (usually one of a pair) for suspending or lowering equipment (as a lifeboat) |
davit
|
| simple crane having lifting tackle slung from a boom |
derrick
|
| large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes true flies and mosquitoes and gnats and crane flies |
Diptera
,
order Diptera
|
| crane flies |
family Tipulidae
,
Tipulidae
|
| crane, mount for traveling |
gantry
|
| framework of steel bars raised on side supports to bridge over or around something; can display railway signals above several tracks or can support a traveling crane etc. |
gantry
,
gauntry
|
| rare North American crane having black-and-white plumage and a trumpeting call |
Grus americana
,
whooper
,
whooping crane
|
| rope used to guide the movement of the load of a crane |
guide rope
|
| tough-skinned larva of certain crane flies |
leatherjacket
|
| crane, raise or lower boom of |
luff
|
| mosquitoes; fungus gnats; crane flies; gnats; sand flies |
Nematocera
,
suborder Nematocera
|
| crane for moving material with dispatch as in loading and unloading ships |
transporter
|
