krangers

Updated: May 16, 2025

The krang is the refuse, as I have said, and the men who separate the oily part from it are called "krangers." The "kings" throw the blubber in rough out of the "flense gut" to the "krangers" on deck; from them it is passed to the harpooners, who are the skinners.

William Henry Giles Kingston - Peter the Whaler