Brewer's: Ferracute

[sharp iron ]. A giant in Turpin's Chronicle of Charlemagne. He had the strength of forty men, and was thirty-six feet high. Though no lance could pierce his hide, Orlando slew him by Divine interposition.

(See Ferrau.)

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