crang
(kræŋ)
[A variant of krang, kreng, a. Du. kreng, MDu. crenge, carrion.]
The carcass of a whale after the blubber has been removed; the flesh of a dead whale.
| 1821 A. Fisher Jrnl. Arct. Regions 43 As black as the crang of a whale. 1827 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 113/2 They lived upon the crang. 1867 in Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. |
b. transf. and fig.
| 1876 Robinson Whitby Gloss. 45 Crang, a skeleton. ‘T' whooal crang’, the entire frame of bones. |