snickersnee

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The tinklerman could not answer--for his throat was grasped too tight in the iron clench of the city champion; but drawing his snickersnee, he plunged it seven times in the bailiff's chest: still the latter fell not.

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  1. noun A knife resembling a sword.
  2. noun Archaic The act of fighting with knives.

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  1. Alteration of obsolete stick or snee, to cut and thrust in fighting with a knife, partial translation of Dutch steken of snijden : steken, to stab (from Middle Dutch; see steig- in Indo-European roots) + of, or + snijden, to cut (from Middle Dutch sniden).

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  1. An accommodation form of snick and snee, a combat with knives: see snick and snee.
 

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/ˈsnɪkərsni/
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