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‖ quillon|kijɔ̃|
[Fr. (1611 in Cotgr.), app. f. quille ninepin: see kayles.]
1. One or other of the two arms forming the cross-guard of a sword.
1884R. F. Burton Book of Sword 125 The quillons may be either straight—that is disposed at right angles—or curved. 1888Archæologia LI. i. 513 The quillons, which start from a rectangular block through which the blade passes. 1894R. S. Ferguson Charters of Carlisle 292 His sword which has plain straight quillons, hangs at his left side. 1978N. K. Sandars Sea Peoples 158 The sword has a tapered blade, flanged tang and quillons.
2. Comb., as quillon-dagger (see quot. 1960).
1950Proc. Prehist. Soc. XVI. 24 The ‘short iron sword’ from Woodcuts, Dorset,..is actually a quillon-dagger of the 13th or 14th century A.D. 1960H. Hayward Antique Coll. 232/1 Quillon dagger, a type of dagger with a simple cross-guard. |