Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for GNU
GNU, n.
- The Catoblepas Gnu, a ruminant mammal of the tribe Bovidae, inhabiting Southern Africa, whose form partakes of that of the horse, the ox, and the deer.
- The draft iron attached to the end of a plow beam, (clavis, clevy.) [Local.]
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