"Roaring Meg" meaning in English

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        "A large cannon; specifically, the large 15th cannon at Edinburgh Castle (more usually called ‘Mons Meg’), or the cannon used to defend [London]derry during the siege of 1688-9."
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          "ref": "1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection iii:",
          "text": "Musica est mentis medicina mæstæ, a roaring-meg against melancholy, to rear and revive the languishing soul […]",
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        "Any large or impressive thing."
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        "(figuratively, now rare) Any large or impressive thing."
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        "A kind of spinning top."
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        "(obsolete) A kind of spinning top."
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