Brewer's: Gurme

(2 syl.). The Celtic Cerberus. While the world lasts it is fastened at the mouth of a vast cave; but at the end of the world it will be let loose, when it will attack Tyr, the war-god, and kill him.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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