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- n. Alternative spelling of yataghan.
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Examples
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But in this engagement he lost his right hand, which was struck off by the blow of a yatagan.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 392, October 3, 1829
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Over his shoulders was a new white strookah, of which he seemed very proud; whilst he had a perfect armament of weapons -- rifles, pistols, yatagan -- polished up to the knocker -- and cartouche-box.
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Moorish yatagan; the Moors were too crowded together to use their guns, and as they could gather no more closely in front than the sailors stood, they were unable to break through the barricade.
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She saw in the girdle an empty scabbard for a yatagan elaborately covered with brilliants.
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It was then for the first time that I saw that my Arab carried a yatagan under his tunic, which he used for pricking on the mule the whole time that we were in the thicket.
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Whenever some news unfavourable to France was announced in the cafes, he came to the Consulate to inform himself as to the reality of the fact; and when we told him that the other janissaries had propagated false news, he returned to them, and there, yatagan in hand, he declared himself ready to enter the lists in combat against those who should still maintain the truth of the news.
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As these continual threats might endanger him, (for they had no support beyond his mere animal courage,) we had wished to render him expert in the handling of arms by giving him some lessons in fencing; but he could not endure the idea that Christians should touch him at every turn with foils; he therefore proposed to substitute for the simulated duel a real combat with the yatagan.
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Arriving at a place of public concourse, they suddenly halted, the prisoner kneeled, and a blow of the yatagan severed his head from the body.
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Whenever some news unfavourable to France was announced in the cafés, he came to the Consulate to inform himself as to the reality of the fact; and when we told him that the other janissaries had propagated false news, he returned to them, and there, yatagan in hand, he declared himself ready to enter the lists in combat against those who should still maintain the truth of the news.
MRBOGGLE commented on the word yatagan
variant of yataghan.
June 9, 2009