Scimitar definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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Whether he also intended to hunt or not, we could not tell; his only weapons were a bundle of lances, and a piece of hard wood shaped something like a scimitar--called, we found, a boomerang--which he carried in his belt We had never failed to shoot as many birds as we required, but we were anxious to kill some of the curious animals which Captain Cook called kangaroos.

—Twice Lost

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noun A curved Asian sword with the edge on the convex side.

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Hadith had sheathed his bloody scimitar, after carefully cleansing it in the sand. — 035 - Murder Mirage
Now, this odd-shaped little jewel is a Ghurka It was a strange, zig-zag shape, with an ornate hilt This," he drew a crescent-moon sword blade, "is called a scimitar. — Time Scout
“If you like the scimitar, I will sell it, nay I will let you steal it from me, for the mere price of twenty silver Desmeés,” the broker said. — FSF,June2005
There is a Turkish scimitar, a Moorish gun, an Italian stiletto, a Japanese "happy despatch," a Norman battle-axe, besides spears and lances and swords of shapes and kinds too numerous to mention. — Cast Away in the Cold An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures, as Related by Captain John Hardy, Mariner
At one end of the divan, a tall bronze crane held in his beak a tray hanging by three chains like one side of a pair of scales, and on it lay a new book and a little Japanese scimitar--a waki-gashi_--the scabbard and hilt encrusted with silver chrysanthemums Elena took up the book, which was only half cut, read the title, and then replaced it on the tray which swung to and fro. — The Child of Pleasure