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English

Noun

crang (plural crangs)

1. Alternative form of krang

English

Etymology 1

From Goidelic. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Alternative forms

• crane

Noun

cran (plural crans or cran)

1. (obsolete) A measure of herrings, either imprecise or sometimes legally specified. It has sometimes been about 37½ imperial gallons, or 750 herring on average.
   • 1800 Dec., Sir Richard Phillips, The Monthly magazine, Volume 10, No. 66, page 486:

     Very flattering indeed has been the success of the fishermen; and many boats have come in loaded, averaging thirty or forty crans each (every cran estimated at 1,000 herrings), and disposed of their cargoes at nine shillings per cran; but the price has been since raised to fifteen shillings.

   • 1938, Louis MacNeice, Bagpipe Music

     His brother caught three hundred cran when the seas were lavish, / Threw the bleeders back in the sea and went upon the parish.

   • 1960, Ewan MacColl, BBC radio ballad Singing the Fishing:

     […] And fish the knolls on the North Sea Holes
     And try your luck at the North Shields Gut
     With a catch of a hundred cran.

2. (obsolete, rare, by extension) A barrel made to hold such a measure.

• For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cran.

Etymology 2

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Noun

cran (plural crans)

1. (music) An embellishment played on the lowest note of a chanter of a bagpipe, consisting of a series of grace notes produced by rapid sequential lifting of the fingers of the lower hand.

Anagrams

• Carn, NRCA, cRNA, carn, crna, narc

French

Etymology

Deverbal of créner (“to kern”), from crenedes (“notched”), from Vulgar Latin *crinare, probably of Celtic/Gaulish origin, from Proto-Celtic *krini-, from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to divide, separate”). Or, less likely, from Latin cern? (“I separate”), itself from the same root.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k???/

Noun

cran m (plural crans)

1. notch
2. (firearms) safety catch
3. (belt) hole
4. (hair) wave
5. (colloquial) guts, bottle, courage

Derived terms

• cran d'arrêt
• être à cran

References

Further reading

• “cran” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *kran?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kr?n/

Noun

cran m

1. crane (bird)

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: crane, krane, cranne, craane, crone, craune
  • English: crane (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: cran