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glee-beams

glee-beams is the plural of glee-beam.

Meaning of glee-beam

Noun

glee-beam (plural glee-beams)

  1. (historical, Anglo-Saxon, kenning) A harp.
    • "[…] So we do him service gladly, thronging round our noble king,
      While the glee-beams at the banquet with the Scêfing's praises ring."1895, Mary Louisa Georgina Petrie Carus-Wilson, Tokiwa and Other Poems, page 120

Questions about glee-beams

What is glee-beams the plural of?
Glee-beams is the plural of glee-beam.

Words near glee-beams in the dictionary

  1. Gledswood Hills
  2. glee
  3. glee club
  4. glee clubs
  5. glee-beam
  6. glee-beams
  7. gleecraft
  8. gleed
  9. Gleedonian
  10. gleeds
  11. gleeful

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