n. [ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]
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. [ 1913 Webster ]
Like a kraken huge and black. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]
(n) a small volcanic island in Indonesia between Java and Sumatra; its violent eruption in 1883 was the greatest in recorded history, Syn.Krakatao, Krakatoa
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