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orc
[ awrk ]
/ ɔrk /
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noun
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
a mythical monster, as an ogre.
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O.R.C.
abbreviation
Officers' Reserve Corps.
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British Dictionary definitions for orc
orc
/ (ɔːk) /
noun
any of various whales, such as the killer and grampus
one of an imaginary race of evil goblins, esp in the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien
Word Origin for orc
C16: via Latin orca, perhaps from Greek orux whale
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