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orc

1

[ awrk ]

noun

  1. any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
  2. a mythical monster, as an ogre.


O.R.C.

2

abbreviation for

  1. Officers' Reserve Corps.

orc

/ ɔːk /

noun

  1. any of various whales, such as the killer and grampus
  2. one of an imaginary race of evil goblins, esp in the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of orc1

First recorded in 1520–30; partly from Middle French orque, a kind of whale, partly from Italian orca “large whale, fabulous sea monster,” partly from Latin orca, a kind of whale; orca ( def ); Orcus ( def ), ogre
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Word History and Origins

Origin of orc1

C16: via Latin orca, perhaps from Greek orux whale
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Example Sentences

But there will be a little bit of Orc killing to be seen in the extended cut.

There are a few Orc killings that we actually got knocked back.

One-third of Americans now say that President Obama should be impeached, according to a CNN/ORC poll.

Riding a warg, the Pale Orc watches as the company awaits their free-fall into death.

The CNN/ORC instant poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.

But with the dawn of that morning Orc descended in fire, “and in the vineyards of red France appeared the light of his fury.”

Last she calls upon Orc; “Smile, son of my afflictions; arise and give our mountains joy of thy red light.”

Of these two divinities, called in the mythology Los and Enitharmon, is born the man-child Orc.

Los embraces her, and she begets a child in her own image—a Human Shadow, who is named Orc (passion).

One merely gathers, that Orc releases himself in order to marry the shadowy daughter of Urthona,—Ah!

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