单词 | water kelpie |
释义 | > as lemmaswater kelpie water kelpie n. ΚΠ 1723 W. Meston Knight i. 65 Familiars, Brownies, Water-kelpies, And all the other hellish Whelpies. 1786 R. Burns Poems 59 Then Water-kelpies haunt the foord, By your direction. 1941 N. M. Gunn Silver Darlings ii. 36 The black horse was no other than, of course, the water kelpie of legend. 1997 Observer (Nexis) 5 Oct. 14 The line..passes Loch Sgamhain, Loch of the Lungs, so named because its water kelpie was said to devour all but the lungs of those who fell in. < as lemmas |
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