- 03.012 The trees changed to beech
- 08.037 they came to a part where most of the trees were beeches.
- 08.132 The beeches were their favourite trees.
- 09.003 There the great beeches came right down to the bank,
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Bee-pastures
- 07.028 We are on the edge of his bee-pastures.’
No such word-concept in OED, I declare this a JRRT original.
Twenty-second
- 19.036 on June the Twenty-second
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.
Bee-autiful
It’s a common word – stretched out and turned into a sound word! Since it’s used uncommonly, I will tag it 10K for now. It may be that I add the common uses of “Beautiful” later – could be in a separate entry, might not be!
- 08.087 after a bee-autiful sleep.
Bear-track
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.
- 07.117 I have been picking out bear-tracks,’
Photo from Wikipedia Commons: “Animal Tracks”.
Beam-end
Although the town had been water-soaked, the ends of beams catch most easily, dragon-fire having been applied to them.
- 14.015 and wooden beam-ends
“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.
Beak
- 06.091 The eagle only sharpened his beak on a stone
Bead
- 11.032 with beady eyes
Battle-ground
- 06.084 above the battle-ground.
“Battleground” in its OED entry, it is hyphenated in some of the examples.
“battleground, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 5 September 2017.
Battering-ram
- 12.101 like the crash of battering-rams made of forest oaks
Hyphenated exactly thus in OED.
“battering-ram, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 5 September 2017.
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