CRANE. The term derives its origin from the necessary extension of neck of such sportsmen as dare to incur the reproach by venturing " to look before they leap."—Notes to Billesdon Coplow.
Harewood, Harry. A Dictionary of Sports. London: T. Tegg and son, 1835.
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