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krans

/ krɑːns /

noun

  1. a sheer rock face; precipice


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Word History and Origins

Origin of krans1

C18: from Afrikaans

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Example Sentences

He has really done it very well, and arranged that at Bebahan we are to pay the Kaïd one hundred krans.

After some talk he agreed to take seventy krans as his share, the rest to be given to his nephew at the end of the journey.

The leather alone of this saddle cost more than eleven krans.

For the cooking and "parlour" fire, the charge was forty-five krans, or about twenty-eight shillings!

The price of interments varies with the proximity to the dust of Fatima from six krans to one hundred tumans.

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