Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A long, slender, two-edged sword with a cuplike hilt, used in the 1500s and 1600s.
- noun A light, sharp-pointed sword lacking a cutting edge and used only for thrusting.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A long, narrow, pointed, two-edged sword, used, especially in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with a guard for the hand, adapted for both cutting and thrusting, but used chiefly for thrusting.
- noun In later English usage, a fencing-sword used only for thrusting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A straight sword, with a narrow and finely pointed blade, used only for thrusting.
- noun (Zoöl.), [Obs.] the swordfish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
slender ,straight ,sharply pointed sword (double-edged , single-edged or edgeless). - adjective Extremely
sharp . - adjective
Cutting smarts orkeen wit .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a straight sword with a narrow blade and two edges
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Also, it prevented rape without any consequences on the rapists, which I should have stated more clearly, but it has nothing to do with this raper which you mentioned, which I can only assume is a misspelling of the term rapier, which is a type of sword.
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Also rapier is right that a “Real World Olympics Village” would be a huge hit.
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Probably the most memorable bit from "Naked Time", after Sulu running around with a rapier, is crewman Riley singing "I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen" one! more! time!
more congratulations 2005
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Probably the most memorable bit from "Naked Time", after Sulu running around with a rapier, is crewman Riley singing "I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen" one! more! time!
more congratulations 2005
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In fact, the back edge of this rapier is sharp enough to draw blood.
Archive 2004-06-01 M-mv 2004
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In fact, the back edge of this rapier is sharp enough to draw blood.
05.04 M-mv 2004
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In fact, the back edge of this rapier is sharp enough to draw blood.
06.04 M-mv 2004
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In fact, the back edge of this rapier is sharp enough to draw blood.
Little Sister M-mv 2004
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Whereupon I screamed, and the Prince, who was writing in the large vellum book in the oriel window, came out in his velvet skull-cap and furred slippers, snatched a rapier from the wall – the King of Spain's gift, you know – on which I escaped, flinging on this cloak to hide the ravages to my skirt – to hide ...
Monday or Tuesday 1921
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January 5th, 2010 at 4: 47 pm rapier is obsessed with a single concept, and therefore just can’t help but view every other topic through that lens.
Matthew Yglesias » Regulating Leverage is More Important than Regulating Bubbles 2010
john commented on the word rapier
“The North American XF-108 Rapier was a proposed American design for a long-range, high-speed interceptor aircraft to defend the United States and Canada from supersonic Soviet bombers.�? More on Wikipedia.
December 30, 2008