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Krahn, masculine, ‘crane’ (machine), Modern High German only, formed from Low German and Dutch; properly identical with Kranich, of which it is a shorter form; see Kranich. Greek γέρανος also means ‘crane’; compare too Latin aries, High German Bock, as well as Latin grus, as terms for machines.