Crane’s-bill: Definition and part of speech

Crane’s-bill

  1. n. A pair of long-beaked forceps.
  2. n. The geranium; — so named from the long axis of the fruit, which resembles the beak of a crane.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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