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Roaring Megs

Roaring Megs is the plural of Roaring Meg.

Meaning of Roaring Meg

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.

Questions about Roaring Megs

What is Roaring Megs the plural of?
Roaring Megs is the plural of Roaring Meg.

Words near Roaring Megs in the dictionary

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

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