cran
See also: cran-
English
Etymology 1
Gaelic.
Alternative forms
Noun
cran (plural crans or cran)
- (obsolete) A measure of herrings, either imprecise or sometimes legally specified. It has sometimes been about 37½ imperial gallons, or 750 herring on average.
- 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:
- (obsolete, rare, by extension) A barrel made to hold such a measure.
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:cran.
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.
French
Etymology
From créner.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʁɑ̃/
Noun
cran m (plural crans)
- notch
- (firearms) safety catch
- (belt) hole
- (hair) wave
- (colloquial) guts, bottle, courage
- Ce garçon a du cran, pour oser sauter en parachute. ― This boy has guts, jumping with the parachute.
- 1998, Ol Kainry (lyrics), “Agrévolution”, in Ce n’est que l’début, performed by Agression Verbale:
- Tu sais pourquoi on voit grand, depuis qu’on est grand, qu’on a du cran
C’est que la merde nous a pendu, on est adolescent
Cran d’arrêt en guise de porte bonheur- (please add an English translation of this quote)
Further reading
- “cran” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /krɑn/
Noun
cran m
- a crane
- Se cran wæs standende on ānum sċancan.
- The crane was standing on one leg.
- Man oft ġehīerþ cranas lange ǣr hē hīe ġesiehþ.
- You often hear cranes long before you see them.
- Þā cranas wyrċaþ heora nest on ċiriċena belhūsum.
- The cranes make their nests in the bell towers of churches.
Declension
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