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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
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A kenning is an obsolete unit of dry measure in the imperial system , equal to two pecks or half a bushel . Category:Imperial units Category:Units of volume
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ken \Ken\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Kenned (k[e^]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Kenning .] [OE. kennen to teach, make known, know, AS. cennan to make known, proclaim, or rather from the related Icel. kenna to know; akin to D. & G. kennen to know, Goth. kannjan to make ...
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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
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 ...
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.