| 单词 | gabriel ratchet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGabriel ratchet Gabriel ratchet n. (also gabriel rache, gabriel ratcher) English regional (northern) (in plural and singular) a noise heard in the air said to resemble the sound of a pack of hounds, made by a bird or birds but often attributed to supernatural creatures or the souls of children who have died unbaptized, and thought to presage death or misfortune; (sometimes also) the creature or creatures making this noise. Cf. Gabriel hounds n. at sense 1b, gabble ratchet n.In quot. ?c1475 it is difficult to see how the gloss camalion, otherwise recorded as the name of a plant, but also possibly a variant of chameleon, could refer to this phenomenon or to mythical creatures thought to cause it.extracted from Gabrieln.< as lemmas |
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