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 Castle Terabil (or “Terrible”)Castor and Pollux. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Castor.
 
A hat. Castor is the Latin for a beaver, and beaver means a hat made of the beaver’s skin.   1
       
“Tom Trot
       
Took his new castor from his head.”
       
Randall: Diary.
 


 Castle Terabil (or “Terrible”)Castor and Pollux. 

 
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