whinyard

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sword, especially a hanger. obsolete
    — It is not a necessary inference that he was wounded, though she says they struck him over her shoulder with whinyards; their object, undoubtedly, was to get him out of the queen's presence in the first place.

词形变化

whinyards plural

词源

Compare English dialect and Scots whingar, whinger; perhaps from Old English winn (“contention, war”) + geard, gyrd (“a staff, rod, yard”); or compare Old English [Term?] (“whistle”, verb), English whine.
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