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Meaning of krang | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
/ˈkɹæŋ/

Definitions

  1. The portions of a whale that remain after the blubber has been removed, especially the flesh and organs.
  2. Anything that remains after flensing (not necessarily from a whale).
    broadly

Examples

“Natives came 30 miles over the ice in two sleighs from Navy Board Inlet; hundreds of mollies following the ship all day for bits of krang and blubber.”
“The carcass of the whale, as left after the flensing, is cut to pieces on the platform and receiver for the krang, where krang and bone are elevated and placed in the krang boilers by machinery.”
“The Mollies do not evince an amiable disposition towards each other; and as the krang ( such is the name given to the refuse parts of the whale ) is cut off, they were to be seen sitting on the water by thousands tearing at the floating pieces, and when one morsel seemed more tempting than another, driving their weaker brethren away from it, and fighting over it as if the sea was not covered with other bits equally good.”
“The harpooner makes a cut across the neck and then down the body, taking care to take as little of the flesh - or 'Krang' as the body is called in whaling language – as possible.”
“Sideways hurled The krang o ' a warld The sun has flensed Is lyin ' forenenst.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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