All 3 Uses of
mane
in
The Lightning Thief
- It had the head of a lion with a blood-caked mane, the body and hooves of a giant goat, and a serpent for a tail, a ten-foot-long diamondback growing right out of its shaggy behind.†
Chpt 13mane = long coarse hair on an animal
- The zebra's mane was matted with chewing gum, like somebody had been spitting on it in their spare time.†
Chpt 16 *
- She wanted to cut the gum out of the zebra's mane, too, but we decided that would be too risky with the truck bumping around.†
Chpt 16
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.