"elf-bolt" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "From the folk belief that they were used by elves.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "elf-bolts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "elf-bolt (plural elf-bolts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "89 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "93 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "94 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              211,
              220
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1775, Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, volume I, Dublin: A. Leathley et al., page 141:",
          "text": "A proof much ſtronger of the diſtance at which the firſt poſſeſſors of this iſland lived from the preſent time, is afforded by the ſtone heads of arrows which are very frequently picked up. The people call them Elf-bolts, and believe that the fairies ſhoot them at the cattle.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A belemnite"
      ],
      "id": "en-elf-bolt-en-noun-LgD2~Jla",
      "links": [
        [
          "belemnite",
          "belemnite"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Fantasy",
          "orig": "en:Fantasy",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Folklore",
          "orig": "en:Folklore",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "4 96",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Folklore",
          "orig": "en:Folklore",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              139,
              147
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1828, T. Crofton Croker, Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South or Ireland, volume III, London: John Murray, page 130:",
          "text": "[A] bow, in order that they may discharge little arrows at men, and tease them, as they otherwise do with small pebbles; for the dangerous Elf-bolt of the Scotch tradition hath doubtless its counterpart in one that is harmless.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              4,
              12
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1851, Daniel Wilson, The Archæology and Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, Edinburgh: Sutherland and Knox, page 125:",
          "text": "The Elf-bolt is associated with many rustic fancies not yet altogether eradicated from the popular mind. It occupied no unimportant part among the paraphernalia of Scottish witches of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; and the occurrence of any sudden disease amongst cattle was ascribed until a comparatively recent period, to their having been shot by the fairies with Elfin arrows.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A magical bolt used by elves as a weapon."
      ],
      "id": "en-elf-bolt-en-noun-mxJq5mV0",
      "links": [
        [
          "folklore",
          "folklore"
        ],
        [
          "fantasy",
          "fantasy"
        ],
        [
          "magical",
          "magical"
        ],
        [
          "bolt",
          "bolt"
        ],
        [
          "weapon",
          "weapon"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(folklore, fantasy) A magical bolt used by elves as a weapon."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "arts",
        "fantasy",
        "folklore",
        "history",
        "human-sciences",
        "literature",
        "media",
        "publishing",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "elf-bolt"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Folklore"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From the folk belief that they were used by elves.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "elf-bolts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "elf-bolt (plural elf-bolts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              211,
              220
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1775, Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, volume I, Dublin: A. Leathley et al., page 141:",
          "text": "A proof much ſtronger of the diſtance at which the firſt poſſeſſors of this iſland lived from the preſent time, is afforded by the ſtone heads of arrows which are very frequently picked up. The people call them Elf-bolts, and believe that the fairies ſhoot them at the cattle.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A belemnite"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "belemnite",
          "belemnite"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Fantasy",
        "en:Folklore"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              139,
              147
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1828, T. Crofton Croker, Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South or Ireland, volume III, London: John Murray, page 130:",
          "text": "[A] bow, in order that they may discharge little arrows at men, and tease them, as they otherwise do with small pebbles; for the dangerous Elf-bolt of the Scotch tradition hath doubtless its counterpart in one that is harmless.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              4,
              12
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1851, Daniel Wilson, The Archæology and Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, Edinburgh: Sutherland and Knox, page 125:",
          "text": "The Elf-bolt is associated with many rustic fancies not yet altogether eradicated from the popular mind. It occupied no unimportant part among the paraphernalia of Scottish witches of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; and the occurrence of any sudden disease amongst cattle was ascribed until a comparatively recent period, to their having been shot by the fairies with Elfin arrows.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A magical bolt used by elves as a weapon."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "folklore",
          "folklore"
        ],
        [
          "fantasy",
          "fantasy"
        ],
        [
          "magical",
          "magical"
        ],
        [
          "bolt",
          "bolt"
        ],
        [
          "weapon",
          "weapon"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(folklore, fantasy) A magical bolt used by elves as a weapon."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "arts",
        "fantasy",
        "folklore",
        "history",
        "human-sciences",
        "literature",
        "media",
        "publishing",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "elf-bolt"
}