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Roaring Meg

Roaring Meg noun: a large cannon; specifically, the large 15th cannon at Edinburgh Castle (more usually called ‘Mons Meg’), or the cannon used to defend Londonderry during the siege of 1688-9.

Noun

Roaring Meg (plural Roaring Megs)

  1. (historical) A large cannon; specifically, the large 15th cannon at Edinburgh Castle (more usually called ‘Mons Meg’), or the cannon used to defend Londonderry during the siege of 1688-9.
  2. (archaic, figuratively) Any large or impressive thing.
    • Musica est mentis medicina mæstæ, a roaring-meg against melancholy, to rear and revive the languishing soul […]1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...
  3. (obsolete) A kind of spinning top.

Forms of Roaring Meg

pluralRoaring Megs

Questions about Roaring Meg

What does Roaring Meg mean?
Roaring Meg means a large cannon; specifically, the large 15th cannon at Edinburgh Castle (more usually called ‘Mons Meg’), or the cannon used to defend Londonderry during the siege of 1688-9.
What part of speech is Roaring Meg?
Roaring Meg is a noun.
What is the plural of Roaring Meg?
The plural of Roaring Meg is Roaring Megs.

Words near Roaring Meg in the dictionary

  1. roaring cat
  2. roaring drunk
  3. Roaring Fork River
  4. roaring forties
  5. roaring game
  6. Roaring Meg
  7. Roaring Megs
  8. roaring off
  9. roaring on
  10. roaring out
  11. roaring success

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