Given that Hobbits are much smaller than adult men and women, I am amused that their beer-mugs are larger than a standard bottle of beer in my experience.
This is a two-word word in its OED headword, but hyphenated in some of the examples.
“beer, n.1.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 5 September 2017.
Hyphenated in its sub-entry in OED.
Probably not the best place to hide as a dwarf who had gone to the cellar is most likely to be looking to fill the pitcher. “Beer-barrels” is a hyphenated word which is properly a two-words in the OED under “beer”, but hyphenated straightforwardly under “barrel”.
“beer, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 1 Juy 2015.
“barrel, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 5 September 2017.
Beech is any one of about a dozen species in the genus Fagaceae.
Obviously this means “logs of beech wood”, but “beech-log” is not in OED, nor is “beech log” one of those two-word words so stuck together that they get their own entry. This hyphenated form is JRRT original.
Not found in OED.
Twenty, combined with all the ordinals or cardinals below ten, takes the hyphen according to OED.
“twenty, adj. and n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/208007. Accessed 21 September 2017.
No such word-concept in OED, I declare this a JRRT original.
The first day of summer, give or take on a leap year.
Twenty, combined with all the ordinals or cardinals below ten, takes the hyphen according to OED.
“twenty, adj. and n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/208007. Accessed 21 September 2017.
No entry at all in OED: obviously “track” is in there, and can follow any sort of animal name, and in that configuration is not one word-concept as JRRT uses it here.
Photo from Wikipedia Commons: “Animal Tracks”.
Although the town had been water-soaked, the ends of beams catch most easily, dragon-fire having been applied to them.
“Beam-ends” is a nautical term, the bits of wood likely to get a dunking on a vigorous beam reach. I’m going to call this a JRRT-original way of using this term, since he is referring to the buildings of Lake-Town.
“beam, n.1.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 5 September 2017.
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