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kreng

kreng is the alternative form of krang.

Meaning of krang

Noun

krang (plural krangs)

  1. The portions of a whale that remain after the blubber has been removed, especially the flesh and organs.
    • Natives came 30 miles over the ice in two sleighs from Navy Board Inlet; hundreds of mollies following the ship all day for bits of krang and blubber.1900, Andrew Barclay Walker, The Cruise of the Esquimaux, Steam Whaler, to Davis Straits and Baffin Bay, April-October 1899, page 47
  2. (broadly) Anything that remains after flensing (not necessarily from a whale).
    • Sideways hurled The krang o ' a warld The sun has flensed Is lyin ' forenenst.1926, Hugh MacDiarmid, Penny Wheep, page 57

Forms of kreng

pluralkrengs

Questions about kreng

What is kreng the alternative form of?
Kreng is the alternative form of krang.

Words near kreng in the dictionary

  1. krendel
  2. krendeli
  3. krendels
  4. Krenek
  5. Kreneks
  6. kreng
  7. krengs
  8. Krenn
  9. Krenner
  10. krennerite
  11. Krenns

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kreng (page history and authors); krang (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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