krang

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Dutch kreng (“a carcass”), from Middle Dutch crenge (“carrion, carcass”), compare with Old English crincgan (“to fall, yield”). Cognate with Danish kreng (“a carcass”).

Noun

krang (plural krangs)

  1. The carcass of a whale after the blubber has been removed.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for krang in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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