Roaring Megn.

Brit.

/ˌrɔːrɪŋ ˈmɛɡ/, U.S.

/ˌrɔrɪŋ ˈmɛɡ/

Forms: see roaring adj. and Meg n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: roaring adj., Meg n.¹

Etymology: < roaring adj. + Meg n.¹ (compare Meg n.¹ 2).

1. A name given to any of various large pieces of ordnance: cf. Meg n.¹ 2.

a. The great 15th-cent. cannon at Edinburgh Castle. Now rare.Mons Meg is the more usual term: see Mons Meg n. at Meg n.¹ 2, and cf. Muckle Meg at Meg n.¹ 2.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > large or long pieces

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1575 U. Fulwell Flower of Fame 53v The Englishe men..shott off a great Iron peece they had, (which Gunne they called Roring Megge, for the terrible noyse that it rendered).

1575 T. Churchyard 1st Pt. Chippes f. 94 ^v With thondryng noyes, was shot of [i.e. off] roeryng Meg.

1651 (title) The articles of agreement, for the surrender of the strong & invincible Castle of Edinborough;..the taking of the Scots Roaring-Meg, and 52 pieces of ordnance, [etc.].

1700 J. Brome Trav. iii. 199 In this [sc. Edinburgh] Castle is one of the largest Canons in Great Britain, called Roaring Megg.

1908 F. W. Watkeys Old Edinb. 241 ‘Roaring Meg’ has been a traveller in her day, for the Exchequer Accounts prove that this great gun..was dragged to..sieges on the Borders.

b. Any similarly large cannon.During the English Civil War applied spec. to a mortar used by the Royalist forces.

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1617 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Faire Quarrell ii. sig. E2^v The first [gun] was your roaring Meg.

1637 N. Whiting Le Hore di Recreatione 10 But a blunt Earle..Beates downe a Fortresse like a Roaring Meg.

1642 H. Peters True Rel. Voy. Ireland 18 Bringing the great Gunne called the Roaring Meg towards the English Castles.

1646 H. Peters Master Peters Messuage from Fairfax 11 We have taken St. Mawes Castle, with Twelve peices of Ordnance,..one called the Roaring-Meg.

1879 J. Webb & T. W. Webb Memorials Civil War II. xxviii. 278 Two ‘roaring Megs’ were sent from the Tower to the siege of Reading.

2005 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 17 July (Features section) 7 Goodrich Castle... Home to a restored keep and the ‘Roaring Meg’ cannon used in a battle in 1645.

c. The cannon used to defend the town of Londonderry in Ireland during the siege of 1688–9; (also) a replica of this.According to tradition the gun was presented to the town by the Fishmongers' Company of London in 1642 (see quot. 1847), but there is no contemporary evidence of the name being applied to this cannon in the 17th-cent.

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1826 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 605/2 The glorious cry of ‘No Surrender’ echoed round its walls. Roaring Meg was pointed at Lord Antrim's men, and they instantly retired across the water.

1847 R. Simpson Ann. Derry 41 In the same bastion lies roaring meg, so called from the loudness of her report during the siege of 1688–9... [It] is inscribed:—‘Fishmongers, London, 1642’.

1896 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 470/1 Hard by the monument stands a famous piece of ordnance, ‘Roaring Meg’, which covered itself with glory and the enemy with confusion during the siege.

1969 Times 12 Aug. 1/7 The miniature brass canon simulating the firing of ‘Roaring Meg’, the main piece of artillery which defended Derry during the siege, was ceremonially fired from the city walls at midnight.

2001 Folklore 112 13 The gates of the city of Derry are frequently portrayed, firmly closed, in the centre of the span and Roaring Meg, the canon used in the defense of the city during the siege, is also often included.

2. figurative and in figurative context. Now rare.

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1598 (title) Tyros Roring Megge. Planted against the walles of Melancholy.

1602 T. Dekker Blurt Master-Constable D2v O Cupid graunt that my blushing..[does not] giue fire too sodainlie to the roaring Meg of my desires.

1656 J. Trapp Comm. Job xxxvii. 2 Drowning the noise of their consciences..by ringing their greatest Bells, discharging their roaring-megs.

1707 E. Hickeringill Misc. Tracts, Ess. Satyrs ii. ix. 23 It is more safe to charge into, and against the Mouth of a Canon or Blunderbus than this Roaring-Meg [sc. Holy Writ].

1930 Science 71 521/1 When Rutherford knocked hydrogen nuclei out of nitrogen, using alpha particles of radium as his Big Bertha or Roaring Megs.

†3. A kind of spinning top. Obsolete. rare.

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1632 R. Sherwood Dict. sig. Ggiij^v, in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) The top called a roaring-meg, trombe. [Cf. Cotgr. (1611), Trombe, a round and hollow ball of wood, hauing a peake like a casting-top, and making a great noise when it is cast as a top.]

1852 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words (ed. 2) II. 688/2 Roaring-meg. A kind of humming-top.

4. A noisy stream or flow of water. Chiefly as a proper name of streams.

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1726 N. Salmon Rom. Stations in Brit. 61 Where the Flux of Water after great Rains is heard at a distance, and by the Neighbourhood it was called Roaring Meg.

1811 Trans. Geol. Soc. 1 50 This structure of the clay..goes by the name of the shaggy metal, and the fresh water which makes its way through the pores has the expressive appellation of Roaring Meg.

1874 V. Pyke Adventure George Washington Pratt 3 The mountain torrent..was the stream named by surveyors [in New Zealand] as the ‘Kirtleburn’, but which is best known by the fantastic appellation conferred on it by the miners—‘Roaring Meg’.

1878 B. L. Farjeon Widow Cherry xiii. 38/2 The waters of the Roaring Meg dashed against their prison-walls, and fell back into their natural current in showers of silver spray.

1905 A. R. Wallace My Life I. vii. 108 He and I went for a walk over the hills towards Hitchin, where on the ordnance map a small stream was named Roaring Meg.

1915 G. A. Roush Mineral Industry during 1914 723 China Camp is the name given locally [in Australia] to that portion of the Cooktown District tinfields situated near the Roaring Meg River.

1952 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 42 94 At Lincoln the Archaeological Research Committee devoted itself to tracing the aqueduct downhill to its source, a spring-fed stream called ‘Roaring Meg’.

2007 A. S. Day et al. Let's go Austral. (ed. 9) 675 Follow the road 700m until the walking track to Roaring Meg splits off on your left.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	roaring meg
释义	Roaring Megn. Brit. /ˌrɔːrɪŋ ˈmɛɡ/, U.S. /ˌrɔrɪŋ ˈmɛɡ/ Forms: see roaring adj. and Meg n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: roaring adj., Meg n.¹ Etymology: < roaring adj. + Meg n.¹ (compare Meg n.¹ 2). 1. A name given to any of various large pieces of ordnance: cf. Meg n.¹ 2. a. The great 15th-cent. cannon at Edinburgh Castle. Now rare.Mons Meg is the more usual term: see Mons Meg n. at Meg n.¹ 2, and cf. Muckle Meg at Meg n.¹ 2. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > large or long pieces serpentinec1450 culverin1515 headstick1516 slang1521 sling1547 basilisk1549 basilc1565 Roaring Meg1575 serpitanta1578 whole culverin1577 cannon1587 whole-cannon1589 cannon pedro1625 royal mortar1761 Long Tom1812 serpent1830 twelve-incher1909 Big Bertha1914 big boy1917 Lizzie1925 1575 U. Fulwell Flower of Fame 53v The Englishe men..shott off a great Iron peece they had, (which Gunne they called Roring Megge, for the terrible noyse that it rendered). 1575 T. Churchyard 1st Pt. Chippes f. 94 ^v With thondryng noyes, was shot of [i.e. off] roeryng Meg. 1651 (title) The articles of agreement, for the surrender of the strong & invincible Castle of Edinborough;..the taking of the Scots Roaring-Meg, and 52 pieces of ordnance, [etc.]. 1700 J. Brome Trav. iii. 199 In this [sc. Edinburgh] Castle is one of the largest Canons in Great Britain, called Roaring Megg. 1908 F. W. Watkeys Old Edinb. 241 ‘Roaring Meg’ has been a traveller in her day, for the Exchequer Accounts prove that this great gun..was dragged to..sieges on the Borders. b. Any similarly large cannon.During the English Civil War applied spec. to a mortar used by the Royalist forces. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > heavy piece > collectively Roaring Meg1617 position artillery1867 big stuff1883 1617 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Faire Quarrell ii. sig. E2^v The first [gun] was your roaring Meg. 1637 N. Whiting Le Hore di Recreatione 10 But a blunt Earle..Beates downe a Fortresse like a Roaring Meg. 1642 H. Peters True Rel. Voy. Ireland 18 Bringing the great Gunne called the Roaring Meg towards the English Castles. 1646 H. Peters Master Peters Messuage from Fairfax 11 We have taken St. Mawes Castle, with Twelve peices of Ordnance,..one called the Roaring-Meg. 1879 J. Webb & T. W. Webb Memorials Civil War II. xxviii. 278 Two ‘roaring Megs’ were sent from the Tower to the siege of Reading. 2005 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 17 July (Features section) 7 Goodrich Castle... Home to a restored keep and the ‘Roaring Meg’ cannon used in a battle in 1645. c. The cannon used to defend the town of Londonderry in Ireland during the siege of 1688–9; (also) a replica of this.According to tradition the gun was presented to the town by the Fishmongers' Company of London in 1642 (see quot. 1847), but there is no contemporary evidence of the name being applied to this cannon in the 17th-cent. ΚΠ 1826 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 605/2 The glorious cry of ‘No Surrender’ echoed round its walls. Roaring Meg was pointed at Lord Antrim's men, and they instantly retired across the water. 1847 R. Simpson Ann. Derry 41 In the same bastion lies roaring meg, so called from the loudness of her report during the siege of 1688–9... [It] is inscribed:—‘Fishmongers, London, 1642’. 1896 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 470/1 Hard by the monument stands a famous piece of ordnance, ‘Roaring Meg’, which covered itself with glory and the enemy with confusion during the siege. 1969 Times 12 Aug. 1/7 The miniature brass canon simulating the firing of ‘Roaring Meg’, the main piece of artillery which defended Derry during the siege, was ceremonially fired from the city walls at midnight. 2001 Folklore 112 13 The gates of the city of Derry are frequently portrayed, firmly closed, in the centre of the span and Roaring Meg, the canon used in the defense of the city during the siege, is also often included. 2. figurative and in figurative context. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means keyOE toolc1000 wherewithc1230 ministerc1380 meanc1390 instrumenta1425 organ?a1425 mesne1447 moyen1449 handlec1450 hackneya1500 receipta1500 operative1526 ingine1531 appliance1555 agent1579 matter1580 mids1581 wedge1581 wherewithal1583 shoeing-horn1587 engine1589 instrumental1598 Roaring Meg1598 procurement1601 organy1605 vehicle1615 vehiculuma1617 executioner1646 facility1652 operatory1660 instrumentality1663 expedient1665 agency1684 bladea1713 mechanic1924 mechanism1924 1598 (title) Tyros Roring Megge. Planted against the walles of Melancholy. 1602 T. Dekker Blurt Master-Constable D2v O Cupid graunt that my blushing..[does not] giue fire too sodainlie to the roaring Meg of my desires. 1656 J. Trapp Comm. Job xxxvii. 2 Drowning the noise of their consciences..by ringing their greatest Bells, discharging their roaring-megs. 1707 E. Hickeringill Misc. Tracts, Ess. Satyrs ii. ix. 23 It is more safe to charge into, and against the Mouth of a Canon or Blunderbus than this Roaring-Meg [sc. Holy Writ]. 1930 Science 71 521/1 When Rutherford knocked hydrogen nuclei out of nitrogen, using alpha particles of radium as his Big Bertha or Roaring Megs. †3. A kind of spinning top. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > top > [noun] top13.. spilquernc1375 prill1440 spilcockc1440 whirligigc1440 nun1585 nun-gig1615 Roaring Meg1632 totum1706 teetotum1720 spinner1799 spinning-top1821 jenny-spinner1824 diabolo1905 dreidel1916 1632 R. Sherwood Dict. sig. Ggiij^v, in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) The top called a roaring-meg, trombe. [Cf. Cotgr. (1611), Trombe, a round and hollow ball of wood, hauing a peake like a casting-top, and making a great noise when it is cast as a top.] 1852 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words (ed. 2) II. 688/2 Roaring-meg. A kind of humming-top. 4. A noisy stream or flow of water. Chiefly as a proper name of streams. ΚΠ 1726 N. Salmon Rom. Stations in Brit. 61 Where the Flux of Water after great Rains is heard at a distance, and by the Neighbourhood it was called Roaring Meg. 1811 Trans. Geol. Soc. 1 50 This structure of the clay..goes by the name of the shaggy metal, and the fresh water which makes its way through the pores has the expressive appellation of Roaring Meg. 1874 V. Pyke Adventure George Washington Pratt 3 The mountain torrent..was the stream named by surveyors [in New Zealand] as the ‘Kirtleburn’, but which is best known by the fantastic appellation conferred on it by the miners—‘Roaring Meg’. 1878 B. L. Farjeon Widow Cherry xiii. 38/2 The waters of the Roaring Meg dashed against their prison-walls, and fell back into their natural current in showers of silver spray. 1905 A. R. Wallace My Life I. vii. 108 He and I went for a walk over the hills towards Hitchin, where on the ordnance map a small stream was named Roaring Meg. 1915 G. A. Roush Mineral Industry during 1914 723 China Camp is the name given locally [in Australia] to that portion of the Cooktown District tinfields situated near the Roaring Meg River. 1952 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 42 94 At Lincoln the Archaeological Research Committee devoted itself to tracing the aqueduct downhill to its source, a spring-fed stream called ‘Roaring Meg’. 2007 A. S. Day et al. Let's go Austral. (ed. 9) 675 Follow the road 700m until the walking track to Roaring Meg splits off on your left. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1575
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