单词 | hell-wain |
释义 | > as lemmashell-wain hell-wain n. a wagon from hell, esp. as a supernatural manifestation in the night sky. ΚΠ 1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft vii. xv. 153 They haue so fraied vs with bull beggers,..the man in the oke, the hell waine, the fierdrake,..and such other bugs, that we are afraid of our owne shadowes. 1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. III. x. 115 Snake-haired furies, in hell-wain, pursuing His soul, with scourges. 1972 M. J. Petry Herne the Hunter vi. 71 The Woden's wagon of the Dutch, the hellwain of northern England, north Germany and Holland. < as lemmas |
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