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单词 kreng
释义

krengn.

/krɛŋ/
Forms: Also krang, crang n.
Etymology: < Dutch kreng, Middle Dutch crenge carrion, carcass; of uncertain origin. (See Franck.)
The carcass of a whale from which the blubber has been removed.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > [noun] > large member of (whale) > parts of > carcass of
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1819 A. Fisher Jrnl. 6 July in Jrnl. Voy. Arctic Regions 1819–20 (1821) 43 As black as the crang of a whale.]
1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage vi. 88 Some of the krang of a whale had been seen in the morning.
1850 W. B. Clarke Wreck of Favorite 39 After the..blubber, whalebone, and jaw-bones are removed,..the remaining part, called ‘the kreng’, is left to become the food of sharks and birds.
1851 Zoologist 9 3021 An ivory gull..stooping down to a piece of ‘krang’.

Derivatives

ˈkrenger n. ? one who strips the blubber from a dead whale.
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1886 Good Words 27 83 (note) The Closh is a pronged instrument, also used by the Krengers.
ˈkrenging-hook n. an instrument for doing this.
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1886 Good Words 27 83 The krenging hook is used in preparing the kreng for the oil copper.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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