"whale's road" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: the whale's road [canonical]
Etymology: Calque of Old English hranrād, from hran (“whale”) + rād (“road”). Etymology templates: {{calque|en|ang|hranrād}} Calque of Old English hranrād Head templates: {{en-noun|?|the=1}} the whale's road
  1. (kenning, literary) The ocean; the open sea. Tags: literary Synonyms: swan's road, whale-road, whale's way
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