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orc

  [awrk]
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–noun
1. any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
2. a mythical monster, as an ogre.
Origin:
1510–20; < L orca
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O.R.C.

 
Officers' Reserve Corps.
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Word Origin & History

orc 
"ogre, devouring monster," O.E. orcþyrs, orcneas (pl.), perhaps from a Romanic source akin to ogre, and ult. from L. Orcus "Hell," a word of unknown origin. Revived by J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) as the name of a brutal race in Middle Earth.
"But Orcs and Trolls spoke as they would, without love of words or things; and their language was actually more degraded and filthy than I have shown it." ["Return of the King," 1955]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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orc

a mythical creature (such as a sea monster, a giant, or an ogre) of horrid form or aspect.

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