Brocken specter

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Brock´en spec´ter


1.A mountain specter (which see), esp. that observed on the Brocken, in the Harz Mountains.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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The name Brocken specter came into use among mountaineers after a climber fell to his death on the Brocken.
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