war-king (pluralwar-kings)

1. A king intimes of war; awarrior king.
   • 1828, Richard Thomson,Illustrations of the History of Great Britain, volume II, Edinburgh: Constable and Co., page82:

     All the inhabitants, excepting the Druids, were trained early to war, and every clan or family fought in a separate band, under the King of its particular nation, and aWar King elected as chief general.

   • 1882,Joseph Bosworth andT. Northcote Toller,An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, volume I, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, page131, column 2:

     Turner thinks that the Bret-walda [...] was awar-king, elected by the other Anglo-Saxon kings and their nobility, as their leader in the time of war.

   • 1999,Seamus Heaney,Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page74:

     [T]he fire-dragon
     had rased the coastal region and reduced
     forts and earthworks to dust and ashes,
     so thewar-king planned and plotted his revenge.

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