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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A dagger typically having a slender square or triangular blade.
  2. v. To stab with such a dagger.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A stabbing-weapon; a dagger: applied to any such weapon, without reference to shape or make.
  2. To stab with or as with a poniard.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A dagger typically having a slender square or triangular blade.
  2. v. To stab with a poniard.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A kind of dagger, -- usually a slender one with a triangular or square blade.
  2. v. To pierce with a poniard; to stab.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a dagger with a slender blade
  2. v. stab with a poniard

Etymologies

  1. From Middle French poignard, from poing ("fist"), from Old French, from Latin pūgnus ("fist"), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peuk-. (Wiktionary)
  2. French poignard, from poing, fist, from Old French, from Latin pugnus; see peuk- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “In Twenty Years After, by Dumas, when M. de Beaufort removes the poniard from the pie and says, “I hold one of these poniards to La Remee’s heart and say to him, ‘My friend, I am truly distressed, but if you make any movement or utter a cry, you are a dead man.’””

    A Bland and Deadly Courtesy

  • “Abidan, unarmed, seized a poniard from the soldier’s belt, stabbed him to the heart, and vaulting on the steed, galloped towards the river.”

    Chapter 7 - Part IX

  • “Thus when the first shadow came creeping into the star lit room, the Cimmerian, silent as a panther, moved to his feet, a poniard in each hand.”

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  • “With a closed backhand, poniard held tight, the barbarian warrior slapped the pipe, filled with deadly powdered black lotus into his opponent's mouth.”

    Archive 2009-12-01

  • “That when the same cannot be done openly I will secretly use the poisonous cup, the strangulation cord, the steel of the poniard, or the leaden bullet, regardless of the honor, rank, dignity or authority of the persons, whatever may be their condition in life, either public or private, as”

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  • “And now, third, tell me how his open enemy can have approached him so close, and de Soulis with sword and poniard ready to hand.”

    Fictionaut: A River So Long

  • “An elevated platform on which the execution of a criminal occurs. poniard”

    Annotations

  • “By the holy poniard, that stabbed Caesar," he swears, if the Convention hesitates over”

    Annotations

  • “Like him, I have a poniard to rid my country of the tyrant, if the Convention do not deliver him to the sword of justice.”

    Newspapers

  • “Like him, I have a poniard to rid my country of the tyrant, if the”

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  1. stab

hypernyms (4)

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  1. sticker
  1. dagger
  1. stab
  1. knife

same context (25)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. shortsword
  2. broadsword
  3. targe
  4. battle-ax
  5. bodkin
  1. firelance
  2. rapier
  3. stiletto
  4. cutlass
  5. scimitar
  1. saber
  2. dirk
  3. poignard
  4. dagger
  5. sabre
  1. panga
  2. backsword
  3. épée
  4. toothpick
  5. bayonet
  1. skean
  2. pike
  3. bludgeon
  4. dripping-pan
  5. claidheammor

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. poinado
  2. poinard
  1. dagger
  2. dirk
  1. dag
  2. poignard
  1. canjar
  2. costile
  1. custil
  2. puñal
  1. poniard
  2. poynado
  1. stylet
  2. escrime

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  • knitandpurl "Too many things were happening at once. Quentin's stomach clenched when he realized an elf had singled Alice out and was advancing across the dry basin toward her, twirling a long straight knife—were they called poniards?—in each hand."
    The Magicians by Lev Grossman, p 328 Oct 14, 2009

  • bilby
    She snatched her poniard,
    And, ere we could prevent the fatal blow,
    Plunged it within her breast; then turned to me:
    Go, bear my lord, said she, my last farewell;
    And ask him, if he yet suspect my faith.
    - John Dryden, 'All for Love'. Sep 20, 2009

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