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† wacadash Obs.
Also 7 wacca-, waka-, wag(g)adash, wakedas(s)h.
[a. Japanese wakizashi.]
A Japanese short sword.
1613W. Eaton in W. Foster Lett. recd. E. Ind. Co. (1897) II. 20 He had given her his wacadash or little cattan. 1613J. Saris Voy. Japan (Hakl. Soc.) 124 Next those weapons resembling a Welch-hooke called Waggadashes. 1615R. Cocks Diary (1883) I. 81, 10 pike heades, 100 arow heades, and three waccadashes. 1615W. Adams Log-bk. (1916) 34 Kattannes wakedasshes and pikes. 1620Will of W. Adams in Athenæum (1910) 21 May 610/1, I..bequeath vnto..Richard Cock..my best Cattane the other of my Cattans and wagadashes I..bequeath vnto my aforesaid sonne Joseph. |