"mer-wolf" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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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",
          "text": "Well for the terrible mer-wolf, and the caves where the witch-wife lay / Till we touched her brows where the fir-trees stand and all we witless wanderers wonne!",
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          "ref": "1921, Charles Scott Moncrieff, Widsith, Beowulf, Finnsburgh, Waldere, Deor: Done into Common English after the Old Manner, pages 53–54",
          "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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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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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",
          "text": "Well for the terrible mer-wolf, and the caves where the witch-wife lay / Till we touched her brows where the fir-trees stand and all we witless wanderers wonne!",
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        },
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          "ref": "1921, Charles Scott Moncrieff, Widsith, Beowulf, Finnsburgh, Waldere, Deor: Done into Common English after the Old Manner, pages 53–54",
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
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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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        }
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        "Alternative form of merwolf"
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