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Arethinn ([personal profile] arethinn) wrote2005-07-11 07:53 pm

more gruesome things

Despite what Infocom may have told you, a grue is apparently a crane, whether in the sense of construction equipment or waterbirds. (It appears to be French.)

[identity profile] glitterychaos.livejournal.com 2005-07-13 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
A grue is a crane, in the sense of the waterbird, in french. It is also a crane, in the sense of the construction equipement, but I have ever only heard of that word being used in reference to the bird among french family members.