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Scran vs Cran - What's the difference?

scran | cran |

As nouns the difference between scran and cran

is that scran is food while cran is a measure of herrings, either imprecise or sometimes legally specified; also rarely a barrel made to hold such a measure.

As a verb scran

is to eat.

scran

English

Noun

(-)
  • (slang, Northumbria, Liverpool) food
    • Let wi gan and get some scran am starvin man!

    Synonyms

    * scrawn (Geordie)

    References

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    Verb

  • (slang, Liverpool) to eat

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    cran

    English

    Etymology 1

    Gaelic.

    Alternative forms

    * crane

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (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 , 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 .
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    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.

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