All 3 Uses of
mane
in
The Fellowship of the Ring
- He shut his eyes and clung to the horse's mane.†
Chpt 1.12 *mane = long coarse hair on an animal
- White flames seemed to Frodo to flicker on their crests and he half fancied that he saw amid the water white riders upon white horses with frothing manes.†
Chpt 1.12
- Its streaming mane kindled, and blazed behind it.†
Chpt 2.5mane = long coarse hair on an animal
Definitions:
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(1)
(mane) long coarse hair such as that which grows around a lion's head or on the back of a horse's neck
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, mane can refer to long coarse hair on another animal; or even to a person's hair.