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Cran Common

Cran has 4 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Proper Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring

2

A measure of herrings, either imprecise or sometimes legally specified. It has sometimes been about 37½ imperial gallons, or 750 herring on average.

3

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.

Proper Noun
1

Cranfield University, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
volume unit
Rhyming Words
ran eran iran fran tran bran pran wran uran gran aran oran taran furan göran moran koran kiran qiran saran
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