Cranes (1 syl.). Milton, referring to the wars of the pygmies and the cranes, calls the former
That small infantry
Warred on by cranes.
Paradise Lost
, i. 575 (1665).
Cranion, queen Mab's charioteer.
Four nimble gnats the horses were,
Their harnesses of gossamere,
Fly Cranion, her charioteer.
M. Dayton,