"mer-wolf" meaning in All languages combined

See mer-wolf on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: mer-wolves [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|mer-wolves}} mer-wolf (plural mer-wolves)
  1. Alternative form of merwolf Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: merwolf
    Sense id: en-mer-wolf-en-noun-t6jswzO8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1905, The Mount Holyoke, page 44",
          "text": "Wild wind that beareth the spin-drift afar, / Wild chant that telleth the doom of Asgar, / Shriek ye, and wail ye, while shudd’ring doth sweep / Serpent, his sea-horse, adown the great deep, / Battling and mad like an eagle gone blind, / Seeking the war-fleets, long sunken, to find , / Down to the arms of Queen Ran of the sea, / Down to the sea-floor, where mer-wolves go free.",
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          "ref": "1918, Dorothy L. Sayers, Catholic Tales and Christian Songs, published 2008, page 57",
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          "text": "Bare then the mer-wolf, / when to the bottom she came, / The ringed Prince / to her own place, / So that he might not, / for all his proud mind, / Wield his weapons; / for such wondrous things / Swinked him in the sound, / sea-deer many / With worrying tusks / his war-sark tare, / Chased him the creatures.",
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          "ref": "1994, Patricia A. McKillip, Something Rich and Strange, published 2015",
          "text": "Above them, more beasts frolicked in the sea: mer-unicorns, mer-dragons, mer-wolves, mer-elephants, even, Megan saw with astonishment, a mer-sphinx.",
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