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 whole of 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 Krenger, ? one who strips the blubber from a dead whale; Krenging-hook, an instrument for doing this.
1886. Mary Linskill, in Gd. Words, 83/2, note. The krenging hook is used in preparing the kreng for the oil-copper. The closh is a pronged instrument, also used by the krengers.
