| 单词 | brain ball |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbrain ball brain ball n. Irish Mythology the brain of an enemy slain in combat made into a ball by mixing it with lime and preserved as a trophy. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > victory > [noun] > sign of victory > enemy's head, brain, or scalp scalp1601 sculp1743 brain ball1841 shrunken head1875 tsantsa1923 1723 D. O'Connor tr. J. Keating Gen. Hist. Ireland 185 Ceat..placed his Ball of Brains in a Sling.] 1841 C. Otway Sketches in Erris & Tyrawly i. 17 He had heard that Connor, king of Ulster, had a brain ball of great celebrity,—for it was composed of the kernel of the finest and thickest skull that ever bore a blow of a battle-axe in Erin. 1907 Folk-lore June 228 Mesgegra's brain-ball, an object that could be slung from a sling. 2000 R. L. Eickhoff Raid (rev. ed.) iii. 67 Cúchulainn climbed into the chariot, kicking away a bag of brain balls made from the lime-soaked brains of his victims. < as lemmas |
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