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- noun 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. - noun figuratively Any
large orimpressive thing. - noun obsolete A kind of
spinning top .
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Examples
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The group entered the water about 500 metres upstream of a power station called Roaring Meg and negotiated one set of rapids before experiencing trouble at a second.
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009
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