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adderbolt

noun

Etymology

From adder (“venomous snake”) + bolt (“arrow”).

  1. derived from *bʰūs-✻
  2. derived from *buzdô✻
  3. derived from bulter
  4. derived from bulten
  5. compounded as adderbolt — “adder + bolt”

Definitions

  1. A dragonfly.

    • Other Animals I observ'd to have yet a greater number, as the Dragon-Fly or Adderbolt […].
    • This philosopher has also found an insect fish, which transforms into an adder-bolt.

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