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bluecap

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Word definitions for bluecap in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bluecap \Blue"cap`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The bluepoll. The blue bonnet or blue titmouse. A Scot; a Scotchman; -- so named from wearing a blue bonnet. [Poetic] --Shak.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A bluecap is a mythical fairy or ghost in English folklore that inhabits mines and appears as a small blue flame. If miners treat them with respect, the bluecaps lead them to rich deposits of minerals. Like knockers or kobolds , bluecaps can also forewarn ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A bird, the blue titmouse.

Usage examples of bluecap.

They are required to tell one or more stories to a Bluecap who transmits them up the hierarchy to Habiba as her tribute.

They are required to tell one or more stories to a Bluecap who transmits them up the hierarchy to Habiba as her tribute.

Once a fortnight I go down the mine and leave payment for the knockers and the bluecaps in a solitary corner, keeping a bit back myself for cartage.

The underground creeping got to it, not long before the knockers and bluecaps moved in—so they say—and the mill subsided, but that was before we came here.