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Noun: kenning  ke-ning
  1. Conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry
    "The kenning 'whale-road' was used to refer to the sea"
Verb: ken (kenned,kenning)  ken
Usage: UK, dialect
  1. (Scottish) know or understand
    "I dinna ken what ye mean"

Derived forms: kennings

Type of: figure, figure of speech, image, trope

Encyclopedia: Kenning, Mike

Ken, Thomas