crank the handle

verb

Definitions

  1. To perform a process

    To perform a process; to do some work.

    • “What do you mean?” said Ozbek. “All he has to do is slide some paper in there, ink the quill and crank the handle”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for crank the handle. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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