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‖ kraken|ˈkrɑːkən, ˈkreɪkən|
Also 8 craken, cracken, kraaken.
[Norw. kraken, krakjen (the -n being the suffixed definite article), also called sykraken, sjökrakjen sea-kraken. The name was first brought into general notice by Pontoppidan in his Förste Forsög paa Norges naturlïge Historie (1752).]
A mythical sea-monster of enormous size, said to have been seen at times off the coast of Norway.
1755tr. Pontoppidan's Hist. Norway ii. vii. §11. 211 Amongst the many great things which are in the ocean,..is the Kraken. This creature is the largest and most surprizing of all the animal creation. 1770Douglas in Phil. Trans. LX. 41 Enquiry..as to the existence of the aquatic animals, called Kraakens. 1830Tennyson Kraken 4 Far, far beneath the abysmal sea,..The Kraken sleepeth. 1848Lowell Ode to France 30 Ye are mad, ye have taken A slumbering Kraken For firm land of the Past. 1862Longfellow The Cumberland vi, Like a kraken huge and black, She crushed our ribs in her iron grasp! |