gnyrran

gnyrran, wk.v: (of the teeth) to gnash, grind, chatter. (G’NUR-rahn / ˈgnyr-ran)

Medieval manuscript illustration of a fish with large tusks and lots of teeth leaping over a current of water.
A fish known as an exposita from Jacob van Maerlant’s Der Naturen Bloeme; Flanders, c. 1350; Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KB, KA 16, f. 105v. [bestiary.ca]

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