- 02.041 and once like a screech-owl,
Hyphenated in some examples
hyphen
Sackville-Baggins
Clearly, it’s a JRRT word if it’s a Middle-earth word, but in the course of checking our hyphenated words, I’m carefully going to count it both ways.
- 19.036 Bilbo’s cousins the Sackville-Bagginses were,
- 19.037 Personally he suspected the Sackville-Bagginses.
Rush-bottom
- 07.093 with wide rush-bottoms
I expected the older “rush-bottomed” in Beorn’s house.
“rush-bottom, adj. and n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/276593. Accessed 19 September 2017.
“rush-bottomed, adj.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/276822. Accessed 19 September 2017.
Rune-letters
- 03.042 “Moon-letters are rune-letters,
Well, well, well. This very line is one of the samples of how this word-phrase is used, so I could give it the JRRT tag, but the earlier example also has the hyphen and I think that’s where the line is drawn.
rune letter n.
1852 Gentleman’s Mag. May 475/1 One distinctive mark of Northernism is the sound th (þ, ð); another is the sound w (ƿ), both originally represented by Rune-letters unknown to the Latin alphabet.
The etymology given in OED, by the way, is really quite funny. Could be Icelandic… or Latin…
“rune, n.2.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/168900. Accessed 19 September 2017.
Round-bellied
- 09.060 a round-bellied pony that was always thinking of rolling on the grass.
Just so in OED.
“round-bellied, adj.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/280294. Accessed 19 September 2017.
Rock-wall
- 11.038 and slowly a part of the rock-wall gave way.
This sub-entry in OED can by hyphenated or not – in general use it can be used as a rock-face or as a wall build out of many individual rocks. Where I live, that’s called a stone fence.
“rock, n.1.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/166697. Accessed 19 September 2017.
Rock-shadows
- 12.029 and black rock-shadows danced.
This word is not found in OED.
Rock-gates
I marvel at the skill it must take to carve out functioning rock-gates – I imagine them all carven of one piece, like the amazing wooden toys which are, for example, a ball captured in a cage.
- 14.044 the head of their host passed the rock-gates
This word is not found in OED.
Rock-face
- 11.021 He would do nothing but sit with his back to the rock-face
- 11.032 and fell on the smooth rock-face.
Its own main entry, with or without hyphens, in OED.
“rock face, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/275103. Accessed 19 September 2017.
Rock-chamber
- 13.071 In the rock-chamber
Hyphenated or not in the OED.
“rock, n.1.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/166697. Accessed 19 September 2017.
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