kenning in English

noun
1
a compound expression in Old English and Old Norse poetry with metaphorical meaning, e.g., oar-steed = ship.
Obviously, in poetry where this was one of the most important mechanisms, the kennings for very common nouns (such as ‘man’ or ‘woman’) are various and inventive.

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1. 21 Wikipedia tells me that a kenning is called a kenning from a norse phrase translating as "to express a thing in terms of another."

2. 25 The example that is often trotted out is from Beowulf where the kenning "whale road" is used to mean the sea.

3. Based on the kenning degree of whiting value of grey number, this paper gives a kind of order relations of interval grey number.

4. 23 The American Heritage Dictionary says that window is an example of a type of word called a "kenning" that the Norse loved to invent.

5. 22 Based on the kenning degree of whiting value of grey number, this paper gives a kind of order relations of interval grey number.

6. Celandine is a poisonous herb that also goes by the name of Celydoyne, Chelidonium, Devil’s Milk, Greater Celandine, Kenning Wort, Swallow Herb, Swallow-Wort and Tetterwort

7. 24 JENNIFER KENNING graduated from Saint Cloud State University (Minnesota) with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in analytical writing and has studied screenwriting at the University of California Los Angeles.