单词 | kreng |
释义 | krengn. The carcass of a whale from which the blubber has been removed. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > [noun] > large member of (whale) > parts of > carcass of crang1819 kreng1835 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < n.1835 |
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