KENNING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("kenning" is a kind of...):

figure; figure of speech; image; trope (language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb ken

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