Kenning

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What Wikipedia says

A kenning (Icelandic: [cʰɛnːiŋk]) is a figure of speech, a figuratively phrased compound term that is used in place of a simple single-word noun. For instance, the Old English kenning 'whale's road' (hron rade) means 'sea', as does swanrād ('swan's road').

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