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Definition of Shabble
1. n. A kind of crooked sword or hanger.
Definition of Shabble
1. an old rusty sword [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shabble
Literary usage of Shabble
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Conquest of Bread by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin (1907)
"If there were free lands which the peasant could cultivate if he pleased, would
he pay £50 to some "shabble of a duke"* for condescending to sell him a ..."
2. Costume in England: A History of Dress to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Frederick William Fairholt (1885)
"shabble. A sword or cutlass. (Davies.) SHADOW. Cotgrave, in 1650, mentions under
the heading cornette " a fashion of Shadow or Boon grace used in old time ..."
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