orca

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A classical name for a large voracious sea-animal, probably a grampus. Anglicized as ork or orc; thus in the second song of Drayton's strange Polyolbion


"The ugly orks, that for their lord the ocean woo."

And Milton afterwards introduces them

"An island salt and bare,

The haunt of seals and orcs, and sea-mews clang."

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