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cran

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Definitions

  1. a capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring

Word origin

Evidently from, or at least influenced by Goidelic; compare Scottish Gaelic crann (“lot, measure of herring, tree, etc.”).

Used in a sentence

  • His brother caught three hundred cran when the seas were lavish, / Threw the bleeders back in the sea and went upon the parish.
  • […] 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.
  • But I've fished a lifetime, boy and man, And the final trawl scarcely makes a cran.

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