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Conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry
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kenning
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Wikipedia
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A kenning ( Modern Icelandic pronunciation: ; derived from Old Norse ) is a type of circumlocution , in the form of a compound that employs figurative language in place of a more concrete single-word noun . Kennings are strongly associated with Old Norse ...
Wiktionary
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Etymology 1 n. 1 (context obsolete English) sight; view; a distant view at se 2 (context obsolete English) range or extent of vision, especially at sea; (context by extension English) a marine measure of approximately twenty miles. 3 As little as one can ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English cenning "procreation; declaration in court," present participle of ken (v.). From early 14c. in senses "sign, token; teaching, instruction;" c.1400 as "mental cognition." From 1871 as "periphrastic expression in early Germanic poetry;" in this ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kenning \Ken"ning\, n. [See Ken , v. t.] Range of sight. [Obs.] --Bacon. The limit of vision at sea, being a distance of about twenty miles.
WordNet
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Usage examples of kenning.
For a thousand years, it had been common kenning among tham thegither.
Masonic Cyclopaedia and Handbook of Masonic Archaeology, History and Biography , George Kenning, London, 1878.
As time passed, it had been disappointing kenning that she wouldna seek his attention, wouldna return his kisses, but then she hadna turned from him, either.
The Kennings and the Myres, once bitter foes, had long ago been beaten down to vassals.
The stranger spoke sometimes like a poet with a mouth full of ornate kennings, and then like a child who hadn't mastered the endings of words… but he'd improved even in the few hours they'd spoken.
The Old Hardic kennings or euphemisms for the word dragon are Firstborn, Eldest, Elder Children.