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▪ I. poniard, n.|ˈpɒnjəd| Forms: 6– poniard; also 6 poynyard, 6–7 poyniard, puniard, 6–8 poynard, 7 ponard, poneyard, poigniard, poinyard, pugniard, punyard, (poinred), 7–8 ponyard, 7–9 poin-, poignard. See also poignado. [a. F. poignard, poingnart, poyniard, pognard (1519 in Hatz.-Darm.), f. poing fist: see -ard.] 1. A short stabbing weapon; a dagger.
1588Shakes. Tit. A. ii. iii. 120. c 1590 Greene Fr. Bacon vi. 132 'Twere a long poniard, my lord, to reach between Oxford and Fressingfield. 1598B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. i. iv, Let your poynard maintain your defence, thus. 1601? Marston Pasquil & Kath. ii. 120 If his skinne be ponyard proofe. 1631Massinger Believe as You List iv. ii, What have wee heere? A poinard and a halter! 1632Lithgow Trav. iii. 89 He weareth..a broad Ponard ouer⁓thwart his belly. Ibid. viii. 350 A French Ponyard. Ibid. 351 My gold and my Poneyard. 1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. xviii. (1674) 20 Puniard, venom, or any other mischievous machination. Ibid. ii. xcviii. 250 The twentieth blow that he hath received..by Pugniard or Cudgel. 1666Pepys Diary 27 Oct., Ugly knives, like poignards. c1680Jus Populi 414 in G. Hickes Spirit of Popery 68 They need not fear either Dag, or Dagger, Pistol, or poisoned poinyard. 1725Pope Odyss. xi. 120 Sheath thy ponyard. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) IV. 287 Here are several daggers or poignards. 1780Cowper Progr. Error 305 Worse than a poinard in the basest hand. 1843Lytton Last Bar. i. iv, The stranger warded off the thrust of the poniard. 1869Boutell Arms & Arm. ix. (1874) 179 A dagger, sometimes so short that it is really a poignard. fig.1599Shakes. Much Ado ii. i. 255 Shee speakes poynyards, and euery word stabbes. 1641Earl of Monmouth tr. Biondi's Civil Warres v. 104 Every motion made them give Allarum's, all which were punyards which wounded Philip. 1901N. Amer. Rev. Feb. 220 Gibraltar is a poniard, always plunged into a wound that has never been healed. 2. dial. (See quot.)
1874T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd xxxvii, He had stuck his ricking-rod, groom, or poignard, as it was indifferently called—a long iron lance, sharp at the extremity and polished by handling—into the stack to support the sheaves. ▪ II. poniard, v.|ˈpɒnjəd| Forms: see the n. [f. poniard n. Cf. F. poignarder (16th c.).] trans. To stab or pierce with a poniard; esp. to stab to death by this means.
[1593Nashe Christ's T. Wks. (Grosart) IV. 123 He was all to be beponyarded in the Senate house.] 1601W. T. Ld. Remy's Civ. Consid. 16 In continual feare to be poyniarded. 1718Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to C'tess of Mar 10 Mar., She threw herself at the sultan's feet, and begged him to poniard her. 1781Cowper Charity 508 Prepared to poignard whomsoe'er they meet. 1887Saintsbury Hist. Elizab. Lit. iii. (1890) 76 He was poniarded in self-defence by..a serving-man. †b. To furnish or fix up with long pins. rare.
1620Middleton & Rowley World Tost at Tennis 834 Those fair ladies..are neither trimmed, nor trussed, nor poniarded. |