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- noun A mythological reptilian monster of legend, identified with the
crocodile .
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Examples
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Wolseley moved about the studio among the objects of his never-ending curiosity, telling extraordinary stories about everything in it like Merlin in the upstairs room of his cottage in the Forest Sauvage in T. H. White’s The Sword in the Stone: There was a real live corkindrill hanging from the rafters, very life-like and horrible with glass eyes and scaly tail stretched out behind it.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Wolseley moved about the studio among the objects of his never-ending curiosity, telling extraordinary stories about everything in it like Merlin in the upstairs room of his cottage in the Forest Sauvage in T. H. White’s The Sword in the Stone: There was a real live corkindrill hanging from the rafters, very life-like and horrible with glass eyes and scaly tail stretched out behind it.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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