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Crane
Crane or '''cranes''' may be:
- Crane (bird), a large, long-necked bird
- Crane (machine), industrial machinery for lifting
- Crane Game, a "claw" type redemption arcade game
- Crane (railroad), crane suited to use on railroads
- Wiktionary:crane#Verb|crane, a verb meaning "to extend (one's neck)"
People
Surname
- ''See Crane (surname)''
Fictional characters
- Alistair Crane, character on the soap opera ''Passions''
- Denny Crane, lawyer on ''Boston Legal''
- Fancy Crane, character on the soap opera ''Passions''
- Fox Crane, character on the soap opera ''Passions''
- Frasier Crane, title character of the sitcom ''Frasier''
- Ichabod Crane, protagonist in Washington Irving's ''The Legend of Sleepy Hollow''
- Jonathan Crane, a.k.a Scarecrow (comics), a comic book villain in the ''Batman'' series by DC Comics
- Julian Crane, character on the soap opera ''Passions''
- Marion Crane, character in the film ''Psycho (1960 film)|Psycho'' and (as Mary Crane) in the Psycho (novel)|novel on which the film was based
- Martin Crane, character on the sitcom ''Frasier''
- Niles Crane, character on the sitcom ''Frasier''
- Pretty Crane, character on the soap opera ''Passions''
- Sheridan Crane, character on the soap opera ''Passions''
- Master Crane from animated movie, ''Kung-Fu Panda''
PlacesUnited States
- Crane, Indiana
- Crane Army Ammunition Activity in Crane, Indiana
- Crane, Missouri
- Crane, Oregon
- Crane, Texas
- Crane Beach, in Ipswich, Massachusetts
- Crane Island (Washington), one of the San Juan Islands
United Kingdom
- Crane, Hillingdon
Businesses
- Crane Co., an American industrial products company
- Crane Merchandising Systems, a vending machine manufacturer
- Crane Plumbing, a brand of plumbing fixtures made by American Standard Brands
- Crane & Co., supplier of paper for US banknotes
- The Crane Group Companies, an American construction and materials company
- Crane Group Limited, an Australian metal products company
Martial arts
- Fujian White Crane, one of five animal-inspired constituent martial arts of the "Five Ancestors Fist" style
- Lama (martial art), which contains the practice of "Tibetan White Crane"
- Persatuan Gerak Badan, an Indonesian martial art whose symbol is a white crane (bird)
Military
- Cessna Crane, a British name for the United States built Cessna AT-17 Bobcat training aircraft
- USS Crane (DD-109)|USS ''Crane'' (DD-109), Wickes class destroyer, named after William M. Crane
Music
- Cranes (band), British dream rock band
- Dallas Crane, alternative rock band from Melbourne, Australia
- Crane School of Music, in Potsdam, New York
Other uses
- Crane Clan of samurai in the ''Legend of the Five Rings'' games
- Crane fly, a family of insects
- Crane shot, in motion pictures, a shot taken with a camera mounted on a crane
- "Crane", in the philosophy of Daniel Dennett, a Darwin's Dangerous Idea#Skyhooks and cranes|material process which dispenses with the need for extrinsic explanations or 'skyhooks' (see ''Darwin's Dangerous Idea'')
- Crane (TV series), British adventure show from 1963-1965
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