whale's way

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The ocean. literary
    — Beowulf answered the queen, “I wished that when I had let float my sea-wood on the whale's way, when I set sail with my war-band, to answer with my life the challenge of Grendel.”

词形变化

the whale's way canonical

词源

Calque of Old English hranrād, from hran (“whale”) + rād (“road, way”).
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