Definitions for "Crankshaft"
n: a rotating shaft to which connecting rods are attached. It changes up and down (reciprocating) motion to circular (rotary) motion.
A shaft with one or more cranks, or "throws," that are coupled by connecting rods to the engine's pistons. Together, the crankshaft and the con rods transform the pistons' reciprocating motion into rotary motion.
Main engine shaft that converts the pistons' reciprocating motion into rotary motion.
Crankshaft is an eponymous comic strip about an elderly, curmudgeonly school bus driver which debuted on June 8, 1987. Written by Tom Batiuk and drawn by Chuck Ayers, Crankshaft is a spinoff from Batiuk’s comic strip Funky Winkerbean.
Keywords:  axle, attached
The axle to which the cranks are attached.
a very popular piece in mechanical machines