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Roaring Meg

noun

Definitions

  1. A large cannon

    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. Any large or impressive thing.

    • Musica est mentis medicina mæstæ, a roaring-meg against melancholy, to rear and revive the languishing soul […]

  3. A kind of spinning top.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA