crank handle

1. 1.

   crank used to start an engine

   Synonymsstarting handle

   Broadercrank

Questions about crank handle

What does crank handle mean?

crank handle means "crank used to start an engine".

What is another word for crank handle?

Close synonyms include starting handle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crank handle a common word?

crank handle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.