corkindrill

plural corkindrills

1. A mythological reptilian monster of legend, identified with the crocodile.

   At this the bird became so nervous that it made a mess on Merlyn's head — the whole room was quite white with droppings — and flew off to perch on the farthest tip of the corkindrill's tail, out of reach.

   1958, Terence White, The Once and Future King, page 26

   2 more examples

   Still, he did give her a good price for the creature, selling it to her under the mistaken impression that it was a corkindrill. Well, of course it was not a corkindrill, although a genuine corkindrill (another of Irene's finds) had shared its crate for approximately fifteen years.

   2000, Nancy Kilpatrick, Thomas Roche, Graven images, page 119

   Other beasts, too, roamed at their graceful will across the landscape: the ox and the wide-horned aurochs, the slouching camelopard, the corkindrill — each animal as fat as a burgher and similarly complacent.

   2009, Roberta A. MacAvoy, Raphael, page 1