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starting handle

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Noun1.starting handle - crank used to start an enginestarting handle - crank used to start an engine        
crank, starter - a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle
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starting handle n (Brit) → manovella d'avviamento


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I love cars, always have, ever since buying my first one at the age of 19 - a rustbucket of a Morris Minor, which you could start with a starting handle and which I had to drive sitting on a booster cushion.
It needs to be wound by hand each week with a large starting handle.
In this shot on the left, a driver turns a starting handle outside Rhyl railway station also in 1913.
 
 
 
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