krake

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krake

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Borrowed from Norwegian krake.

noun krakes

rare Rare form of Kraken But the most horrible and hideous monster, that the fables of the Norway fishers have invented, is the krake, sea-horse, or hafgufu, which nobody ever pretends to have seen entire; yet the fishers give out, that when they find a place which is usually 80 or 100 fathoms deep, to be at certain times o

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@misc{krake_2026,
  title = {krake},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/krake},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}