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Definition of Poniard
1. Verb. Stab with a poniard. "They want to poniard the prisoners "
2. Noun. A dagger with a slender blade.
Definition of Poniard
1. n. A kind of dagger, -- usually a slender one with a triangular or square blade.
2. v. t. To pierce with a poniard; to stab.
Definition of Poniard
1. Noun. (context: now chiefly historical) A dagger typically having a slender square or triangular blade. ¹
2. Verb. To stab with a poniard. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Poniard
1. to stab with a dagger [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poniard
Literary usage of Poniard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Marie Antoinette at the Tuileries, 1789-1791 by Imbert de Saint-Amand (1893)
"XL THE KNIGHTS OP THE poniard. is no longer any dike in the way of the JL_ torrent.
Anarchy is everywhere. The governmental machine is broken. ..."
2. The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl, Donald Grant Mitchell (1899)
"After she had danced several dances with the same propriety and strength, she
drew the poniard, and holding it in her hand, danced a dance in which she ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"When he killed Pompeo, he gave him two stabs with a poniard in the throat, in
the midst of ten men who were guarding him; then he escaped, to their great ..."
4. The Monks of the West, from St. Benedict to St. Bernard by Charles Forbes Montalembert, Aurélien Courson (1872)
"Edwin saved from the poniard of an assassin; birth of his daughter; war against
the West Saxons. — Hesitation of Edwin; last effort of Paulinus. ..."
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