Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class I. Words Expressing Abstract RelationsSection VI. Time
2. Time with reference to a particular Period
130. Veteran.
GRANNY, grandam or grandame [archaic], gammer [dial. Eng.], crone, hag, oldwife, beldam or beldame.
preadamite, Methuselah, Nestor, old Parr; elders; forefathers (paternity) [See Paternity]; Darby and Joan, Philemon and Baucis, “John Anderson, my jo” [Burns].