BOAR'S HEAD

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BOAR'S HEAD

Specialty Definition: BOAR'S HEAD

Domain	Definition
Literature	Boar's Head [The Christmas dish.] Freyr, the Scandinavian god of peace and plenty, used to ride on the boar Gullinbursti; his festival was held at Yuletide (winter solstice), when a boar was sacrificed to his honour. The Boar's Head. This tavern, made immortal by Shakespeare, used to stand in Eastcheap, on the site of the present statue of William IV. It was the cognisance of the Gordons, the progenitor of which clan slew, in the forest of Huntley, a wild boar, the terror of all the Merse (1093). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Crosswords: BOAR'S HEAD

Specialty definitions using "BOAR'S HEAD": Devil rides on a Fiddlestick ♦ Public-house Signs. (references)

Commercial Usage: BOAR'S HEAD

Domain	Title
Books	The Christmas book : Christmas in the olden time, its customs and their origin : the holly and ivy, sports of the eve, Yule log, boar's head, the dinner, mummers, Lord of Misrule, Saturnalia, carols, mysteries and plays, boxes, &c. &c (reference) (more book examples)
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Image Slideshow: BOAR'S HEAD

Photo Album: BOAR'S HEAD

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Breaknolle, estate of Mrs. George M. Studebaker, Little Boar's Head, New Hampshire. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Modern Translation: BOAR'S HEAD

Language		Translations for "BOAR'S HEAD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		schweinskopf. (various references)

Manx		kione collee. (various references)

Pig Latin		oar'sbay eadhay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: BOAR'S HEAD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "'-a-a-b-d-e-h-o-r-s"
	-2 letters: seaboard.
	-3 letters: abashed, abrades.
	-4 letters: abased, abaser, abhors, aboard, abodes, abrade, abroad, adobes, adores, adsorb, ahorse, ardebs, ashore, bardes, bashed, basher, beards, boards, boheas, breads, broads, dasher, debars, desorb, dobras, hoards, hoarse, hordes, horsed, obeahs, oreads, rehabs, reshod, sabred, sarode, serdab, shader, shared, shored, soared, sorbed, sradha.
	-5 letters: aahed, abase, abash, abhor, abode, adobe.
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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Images: Photo Album

5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography

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