A low-quality whale carcass or whale oil refuse; the remains of whale processing in the commercial whaling industry.
From Old Norse or Scandinavian languages (possibly related to 'krang' meaning 'carcass'). Used specifically in the whaling industry to describe worthless whale remnants.
Whaling created its own dark vocabulary—'crang' was the stuff nobody wanted, the nasty bits left after extracting valuable blubber—it shows how specialized industries develop words for waste that nobody else needed to name!
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