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Crane

Beings · Nature

Crane as an animal people have named and used. Longevity, vigilance, high watch — one living kind, not a single symbol.

Roman religion

  • Crane appears in Roman religion.

    Pliny’s Natural History records the crane among migratory birds of Roman encyclopedic speech. A named crane in that encyclopedia, not stork as the filial-piety bird alone and not an East-Asian longevity dump.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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  • Windlass is used in Crane.

    Vitruvius’s Ten Books Book X seat horizontal-axis drums and windlasses among hoisting machines that raise stone and loads on building works. A named windlass in that machine speech, not a ship-anchor windlass alone and not a vertical capstan.

    from Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation) · De Architectura, 1st century BCE; Morgan English 1914

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  • Lewis is used in Crane.

    Vitruvius’s Ten Books seat iron lifting tongs and related devices that grip prepared holes in ashlar for hoist work. A named lewis in that stone-hoist craft, not a personal-name dump and not plug-and-feathers.

    from Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation) · De Architectura, 1st century BCE; Morgan English 1914

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Hellenic religion

  • Crane appears in Hellenic religion.

    The Iliad likens the Trojan host’s clamor to cranes crying as they fly. A named crane in that epic’s simile craft, not a origami dump and not every marsh-bird.

    from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)

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  • Cylinder is used in Crane.

    In Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, the cylinder is first removed by the swing crane then lifted out and replaced by another — the crane does that cylinder lift.

    from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)

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