Complete Definition of "widow-maker"

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Noun
en-noun|sg=widow-maker

  1. Something which takes the lives of men; a hazard that affects mostly men or is specific for some trade, occupied mostly by men.

#:What is a woman that you forsake her,
#:
And the hearth-fire and the home-acre,
#:To go with the old grey Widow-maker?
#::� :w:Rudyard Kipling|Rudyard Kipling, "Harp Song of the Dane Women"

Translations
trans-top|something which takes the lives of men
Dutch: weduwenmaker m
German: WitwenMacher?|macher
trans-mid
Russian: вдоводел (vdovodél) m
trans-bottom

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