All 10 Uses of
erg
in
Dune
- With a Fremen suit in good working order, you won't lose more than a thimbleful of moisture a day—even if you're caught in the Great Erg.†
Book 1 *
- …. there, and it is open sand down to the erg.†
Book 2
- "Each bush, each weed you see out there in the erg," she said, "how do you suppose it lives when we leave it?†
Book 2
- We are in the central erg beyond the Harkonnen patrols.†
Book 3
- Until he did this thing himself, even the great southlands — the area some twenty thumpers beyond the erg — were denied him unless he ordered a palanquin and rode like a Reverend Mother or one of the sick and wounded.†
Book 3
- He lifted his head and looked to the south, reminding himself that the maker summoned wild from the erg was an unknown quantity, and the one who summoned it was equally unknown to this test.†
Book 3
- And I am a Fremen born this day here in the Habbanya erg.†
Book 3
- Must I prove it by leaving every Fremen tribe in the erg without a leader?†
Book 3
- Water is poisonous to shai-hulud as the Fremen had long known from drowning the rare "stunted worm" of the Minor Erg to produce the awareness-spectrum narcotic they call Water of Life.†
Book A1 -
- ERG: an extensive dune area, a sea of sand.†
Book Term
Definition:
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(erg as in: ergs of chemical energy) a measure of energy (less commonly used than the joule now)