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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Prob. from OSw.

krake

, or ODan.

krage

the trunk of a tree, the branches of which are not entirely cut off, to which it was likened by the Norwegian mariners.]

A fabulous Scandinavian sea monster, often represented as resembling an island, but sometimes as resembling an immense octopus.

To believe all that has been said of the sea serpent or

kraken

, would be credulity; to reject the possibility of their existence, would be presumption.

Goldsmith.

Like a

kraken

huge and black.

Longfellow.

Noun.

A supposed enormous sea animal.