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  • noun Plural form of cran.

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Examples

  • Cook over medium-high heat until most of the fresh crans have burst -- about 15 minutes.

    A Traditional Turkey Day Doctor Science 2008

  • Cook over medium-high heat until most of the fresh crans have burst -- about 15 minutes.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Doctor Science 2008

  • I love cranberries, so I used oranges and switched out the blues for crans cut in half, and a half cup of walnuts for texture.

    lemon yogurt anything cake | smitten kitchen 2008

  • Tuesday: hardly any considering it was my birthday. just a couple of vodka crans with my sister and some friends.

    miss-k2 Diary Entry miss-k2 2004

  • Lovely maidens sit in close proximity to the roots of the lovely trees singing the most lovely songs while they play with all kinds of lovely objects as for example golden ingots, silvery fishes, crans of herrings, drafts of eels, codlings, creels of fingerlings, purple seagems and playful insects.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Lovely maidens sit in close proximity to the roots of the lovely trees singing the most lovely songs while they play with all kinds of lovely objects as for example golden ingots, silvery fishes, crans of herrings, drafts of eels, codlings, creels of fingerlings, purple seagems and playful insects.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Rabat was Dean o 'Guild that year --- (and a gude mason he was himself, made him the keener to keep up the auld bigging) --- and the trades assembled, and offered downright battle to the commons, rather than their kirk should coup the crans as others had done elsewhere.

    Rob Roy 1887

  • They were dead-beat; but there were ten crans of herring in that boat.

    The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols William Black 1869

  • Argyle_ had turned ten crans -- as good herring as ever were got out of

    The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols William Black 1869

  • Mr. Bailie came along not long after that, and shook hands with Rob, and congratulated him; for it turned out that while not another Erisaig boat had that night got more than from two to three crans, the _Mary of

    The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols William Black 1869

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