Noun

1. 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, Ewan MacColl, BBC radio ballad 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.

Noun

1. 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.

Noun

1. notch
2. (firearm) catch
3. (belt) hole
4. (hair) wave
5. guts, bottle, courage