Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A local Scotch measure of capacity for fresh herrings, equal to 34 United States (old wine) gallons. Also crane.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete a measure of herrings, either imprecise or sometimes legally specified; also rarely a barrel made to hold such a measure
- n. 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.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Scot. A measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring
Etymologies
- Gaelic. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I then watched him try to create a vodka cran, which is one of the easier drinks on the planet to make.”
“The language is borrowed from the "cran," or trivet on which small pots are placed in cookery, which is sometimes turned with its feet uppermost by an awkward assistant.”
“Anyway, did you know that a "cran" is a package of 1,200 errings?”
“I love that he is so thoughtful buying me the bagels I like and making sure there is always enough of my cran-apple juice in the fridge.”
“It's oj rather than cran (and if you don't have orange bitters, it'll still be fine).”
“The sweet vanilla cran-cherry flavors come back on the mid-palate and contnue through a medium-long finish, where they are joined by dusty earthy and cocoa powder flavors.”
“So anyway, I have looked far and wide into milk alternatives for my iced coffee with a splash of cran, and I thought that I would share them with you.”
The Huffington Post: Meredith Fineman: The (N)ot Milk Guide.
“Yet after the abbatis abbatoir of Verdun and the unrequitable shame of 1940 the French turned to Indochine and Algerie with equally unrequited cran -- for identity-ratification -- for purification in battle, win or lose.”
“Can you ask Rebecca Stein if he's the type of guy to drop a little roofie into your vodka-cran and pretend it didn't happen?”
The Huffington Post: Meredith Fineman: Fifty First (J)Dates: A Guide to Effective Stalking.
“But the filmmaker, who also plays himself — his nom d 'é cran is Simon — seems no less lost.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cran’.
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Phonestheme: CR- (or KR-)
Grateful credit to pterodactyl and http://reocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9783/phond1.html.
crook, crack, crane, cremains, cranberries, crimp, crow, crunch, crash, creak, croak, cronk and 94 more...
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Herring
herring, pickled herring, red herring, bloater, herring-buss, herring-fishery, herring pond, herring-pond, whitebait, herringbone, herring-bone, buss and 65 more...
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The Measure of Man
Unusual, arcane, or obscure units of measure
cable, cabot, bushel, cade, caliper, callipic cycle, metonic cycle, cunit, air watt, ale gallon, allergy unit, amber and 228 more...
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A Serving of Random Palavery
This is an eclectic and somewhat random list of words that catch and hold my attention. They may be archaic or disused, dialectal, jargon words from my fields of academic speciality (linguistics, ...
scraffle, infelicitous, misprize, defrock, caitiff, gimcrack, innerve, abjure, cyberchondriac, indurate, hexagynous, pistils and 146 more...
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Bagpipes
"God's own music," said the guide to me in Edinburgh. At least God was enthusiastic enough to bestow the squealing bag many names.
bagpipes, zampogna, koza, dudy, gaida, surdulina, northumbrian smal..., gaita, chevrette, chiaramedda, gajdy, biniou and 23 more...
Tweets
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ruzuzu "1. A local Scotch measure of capacity for fresh herrings, equal to 34 United States (old wine) gallons. Also crane." --Cent. Dict.
Aug 9, 2011
hernesheir (n): an Uillean piping ornament consisting of a series of varied grace notes above a low note, commonly the low (bottom) D. Jan 3, 2009