kreng
(krɛŋ)
Also krang, crang.
[a. Du. kreng, MDu. crenge carrion, carcass; of uncertain origin. (See Franck.)]
The carcass of a whale from which the blubber has been removed.
| [1821: see crang.] 1835 Sir J. Ross Narr. 2nd Voy. vi. 88 Some of the krang of a whale had been seen in the morning. 1850 W. B. Clarke Wreck of Favorite 39 After the..blubber, whalebone, and jaw-bones are removed,..the remaining part, called ‘the kreng’, is left to become the food of sharks and birds. 1851 Zoologist IX. 3021 An ivory gull..stooping down to a piece of ‘krang’. |
Hence ˈkrenger, ? one who strips the blubber from a dead whale; ˈkrenging-hook, an instrument for doing this.
| 1886 Gd. Words 83 The krenging hook is used in preparing the kreng for the oil copper. Ibid., note, The Closh is a pronged instrument, also used by the Krengers. |