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crang|kræŋ|
[A variant of krang, kreng, a. Du. kreng, MDu. crenge, carrion.]
The carcass of a whale after the blubber has been removed; the flesh of a dead whale.
1821A. Fisher Jrnl. Arct. Regions 43 As black as the crang of a whale. 1827Chron. in Ann. Reg. 113/2 They lived upon the crang. 1867in Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.
b. transf. and fig.
1876Robinson Whitby Gloss. 45 Crang, a skeleton. ‘T' whooal crang’, the entire frame of bones. |