Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In whaling, the carcass of a whale after the blubber has been removed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The carcass of a whale after the blubber has been removed.

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  • noun The carcass of a whale after the blubber has been removed.

Etymologies

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Compare Danish kreng a carcass.

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Examples

  • The krang is the refuse, as I have said, and the men who separate the oily part from it are called "krangers."

    Peter the Whaler William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • 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.

    Peter the Whaler William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • Beebop, Rocksteady, The white "fly" version of baxter, April as a reporter, technodrome, and krang need to be wiped from the public memory as having anything to do with TMNT.

    The Foot Clan Confirmed For Live-Action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Movie | /Film 2009

  • They still ate pizza krang still sounded annoying, Shredder cracked terrible jokes.

    It's Official - More Live-Action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • Also Truzenzuzex Thranxand Bran-Tse Mallory traveled to the krang weapons platform together

    Here's the finished Flinx... Zillabob 2007

  • Of every pair of Japanese wooden clogs, one makes in walking a slightly different sound from the other, as kring to krang; so that the echo of the walker's steps has an alternate rhythm of tones.

    Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • This was removed, and carefully boiled down to make oil; and the _krang_, or carcass, was left as a decoy to molliemauks and ivory-gulls, -- these latter birds having for the first time been seen by me to-day.

    Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51 Sherard Osborn 1848

  • This krang floated away; and afterwards, as I shall have presently to relate, was the source of much amusement.

    Peter the Whaler William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • What was curious, we hit the spot to which the krang of the fish we had killed the day before had floated.

    Peter the Whaler William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • I must confess that, when I came on deck after the krang had been cast adrift, I was not sorry to see my friend in that condition.

    Peter the Whaler William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

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  • Some shanty the tired whalers sang

    To work till the dinner bell rang.

    On days spent at flense

    It made perfect sense

    To dine on a chowder of krang.

    August 3, 2018