slon

[Barnhart]

Dear Dennis,

This surprised me too.  However, the Dover Publications (1944)
specifically uses the subordinate definition:

"(in chess) bishop" NOT elephant as I would have suspected.  Under
"rook" they give

_áàøíÿ_ or  _ëàäÿ_.   OOPS, that's what happened when I tried to insert
from Word the Cyrillic forms.

I guess one could transliterate this as "bashnya" or "ladya".

If this is hogwash, then let me know and I'll consign this book to the
burn pile.

Regards,
David