Crane

Crane or cranes may be:

• Crane (machine), an industrial machinery for lifting
  • Container crane, a machine for lifting intermodal containers
  • Crane (railroad), a crane suited to use on railroads
• Crane (bird), a large, long-necked bird
  • Paper crane, an origami version of this bird
• Crane Game, a "claw" type redemption arcade game
• Crane, a verb meaning "to extend (one's neck)"
• Crane (TV series), a British TV series starring Patrick Allen, which ran from 1963 to 1965

Contents 1 People 1.1 Surname 1.2 Fictional characters 2 Places 3 Businesses 4 Film 5 Martial arts 6 Military 7 Music 8 Other uses 9 See also

• Cranes (band), a British music group formed in 1986, whose style has been described as "gothic minimalism".

People

Surname

See Crane (surname)

Fictional characters

characters on the soap opera Passions

• Alistair Crane
• Fancy Crane
• Fox Crane
• Julian Crane
• Pretty Crane
• Sheridan Crane

characters on the sitcom Frasier

• Frasier Crane
• Niles Crane
• Martin Crane
• Daphne Moon becomes Daphne Moon Crane after marrying Niles Crane
• Frederick Crane
• Maris Crane

• Denny Crane, a lawyer on Boston Legal
• Ichabod Crane, a 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
• Marion Crane, a character in the film Psycho and (as Mary Crane) in the novel on which the film was based
• Master Crane, a character from the animated movie Kung-Fu Panda

Places

Barbados

• The Crane, Saint Philip

United States

• Crane, Indiana
• Crane Army Ammunition Activity in Crane, Indiana
• Crane, Missouri
• Crane, Oregon
• Cranesville, Pennsylvania
• Crane, Texas
• Crane Beach, in Ipswich, Massachusetts
• Crane Island (Washington), one of the San Juan Islands

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., a supplier of paper for US banknotes
• The Crane Group Companies, an American construction and materials company
• Manitowoc Cranes, a global manufacturer of lifting products
• Mascus, a Used Construction Equipment Sales company in South Africa

Film

• The Crane, a 1992 film
• The Cranes Are Flying, a 1957 film

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"

Military

• Cessna Crane, a British name for the United States built Cessna AT-17 Bobcat training aircraft
• USS Crane (DD-109), a Wickes class destroyer, named after William M. Crane

Music

• Cranes (band), a British alternative rock band
• Crane School of Music, a school in Potsdam, New York, United States

Other uses

• Crane shot, a shot taken with a camera mounted on a crane in motion pictures

See also

• Crane fly

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