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cran
cran
See also: cran-
English
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Noun
cran (plural crans or cran)
- (obsolete) a measure of herrings, either imprecise or sometimes legally specified; also rarely a barrel made to hold such a measure
- 1800 Dec., Sir Richard Phillips, The Monthly magazine, Volume 10, No. 66, page 486:
- Very flattering indeed has been the success of the fishermen; and many boats have come in loaded, averaging thirty or forty crans each (every cran estimated at 1,000 herrings), and disposed of their cargoes at nine shillings per cran; but the price has been since raised to fifteen shillings.
- 1960, Ewan MacColl, BBC radio ballad Singing the Fishing:
- […] And fish the knolls on the North Sea Holes
And try your luck at the North Shields Gut
With a catch of a hundred cran.
- […] And fish the knolls on the North Sea Holes
- 1800 Dec., Sir Richard Phillips, The Monthly magazine, Volume 10, No. 66, page 486:
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:cran.
Etymology 2
Noun
cran (plural crans)
- (music) An embellishment played on the lowest note of a chanter of a bagpipe, consisting of a series of grace notes produced by rapid sequential lifting of the fingers of the lower hand.