Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as spadone.
Wiktionary
- n. A single-handed, lightweight sword.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A sword, especially a broadsword, formerly used both to cut and thrust.
Etymologies
- Compare French and Spanish espadon, Italian spadone. See espadon, spade. (Wiktionary)
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Lists
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Gene Wolfe
Please contribute your favorite words from any of Gene Wolfe’s books to this prize-winning list.
In case you come across words in this list which are too commonplace to fit in, please ...gallipot, roost, badelaire, oblesque, execration, dhole, amschaspand, arctother, chalcedony, penitence, asimi, autarch and 839 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
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-oons (once of more than one syllable)
Originally this list was to contain multisyllabic words that end in "oon," but as you can see from the comments, all hell broke loose.
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jbd1's Words
mondegreen, discombobulate, ourobouros, unputdownable, gobbledygook, zephyr, obloquy, prestidigitation, glossolalia, dilapidated, revivification, truthiness and 92 more...
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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
calcar, pinion, espadrille, antipodes, peregrine, cormorant, tanager, vireo, farrago, undervest, passerine, oscine and 881 more...
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Historical Military Terms of Interest
Many (if not all) of these terms were selected from A pocket dictionary, for military officers, containing a definition of all the tactical terms now in use, with other matter belonging to the art ...
zig-zags, yeoman, xerxes, xeiff, xenophon, worm, watch-word, windage, wheeling, wad-hock, wadding, volley and 242 more...
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S-words
sabre, falchion, rapier, excalibur, cutlass, scimitar, xiphoid, scabbard, matachin, whinyard, ensiform, whinger and 18 more...
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chained_bear "SPADROON, a cut and thrust sword." (citation in Historical Military Terms list description) Oct 9, 2008