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单词 poniard
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poniardn.

Brit. /ˈpɒnjəd/, /ˈpɒnjɑːd/, U.S. /ˈpɑnjərd/
Forms: 1500s poynarde, 1500s–1600s poyniard, 1500s–1600s poynyard, 1500s–1600s puniard, 1500s–1700s poynard, 1500s–1800s poinard, 1600s poigniard, 1600s poinred, 1600s poinyard, 1600s ponard, 1600s poneyard, 1600s poyneard, 1600s pugniard, 1600s puinyeard (Scottish), 1600s punniard, 1600s punyard, 1600s–1700s ponyard, 1600s–1800s (1800s– English regional (Dorset)) poignard, 1600s– poniard.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French poignard.
Etymology: < Middle French, French poignard small, slim dagger (1512 as pongnard ; earlier as poignart in sense ‘kind of weapon’ (c1460)), alteration (compare -ard suffix) of Middle French poignal dagger (14th cent.; 13th cent. in Old French in sense ‘hilt of a sword’; earlier as adjective in senses ‘which one holds in the hand’ (c1165), ‘(of weapons, missiles) which one operates with the fist’ (c1165)), apparently < post-classical Latin pugnalis (adjective) of or relating to a fist (although this is apparently first attested later: 1386 in gladius pugnalis hand-sword; earlier as noun, denoting a cuff (1238 in a British source; compare also pugnale cuff (1295)) < classical Latin pugnus fist (see pugnacious adj.) + -ālis -al suffix1. Compare Old Occitan ponhal dagger (14th cent.; earlier as adjective in senses ‘which one holds in the hand’, ‘(of weapons, missiles) which one operates with the fist’ (13th or 14th cent.)), Catalan punyal dagger (early 14th cent.), Spanish puñal dagger (probably 13th cent.; also as adjective in senses ‘as large as a fist’ (c1250), ‘which one holds in the fist’ (1261 in cuchillo puñal dagger, literally ‘fist knife’)), Italian pugnale dagger (14th or 15th cent.).
1.
a. A small, slim dagger. Now chiefly historical.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > knife or dagger > [noun]
saxa800
knifec1175
pricka1350
awla1387
daggerc1386
puncheonc1425
custil1447
punch?1480
murdererc1500
pointela1522
poniard1533
pounce1545
poignado?a1549
slaughmess1548
dirk1557
pistolesea1566
parazone1623
coutel1647
chiv1673
couteau1677
cuttoe1678
sticker1772
cultel1824
skewer1838
snicker1847
shiv1915
chib1929
1533 in tr. Erasmus Enchiridion Militis Christiani Printer's Pref. sig. a*.iv Who knoweth it not than this wyll teche hym here In his breuyer poynarde or manuell.
a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. D2 Twere a long poinard my lord, to reach betweene Oxford and Fresingfield.
1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor i. iii. sig. C4 Let your poyneard maintaine your defence thus. View more context for this quotation
a1640 P. Massinger Beleeue as you List (1976) iv. ii. 41 What haue wee heere? A poniard, and a halter.
a1680 Jus Populi 414 in G. Hickes Spirit of Popery (1680) 68 They need not fear either Dag, or Dagger, Pistol, or poisoned poinyard.
1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xi. 120 Sheath thy ponyard.
1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 305 Worse than a poinard in the basest hand.
1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. l. 33 If subtle poniards, wrapt beneath the cloke, Could blunt the sabre's edge, or clear the cannon's smoke.
1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour ix. 179 A dagger, sometimes so short that it is really a poignard.
1898 Argosy Aug. 26 Immediately a dozen poniards struck home and Griswold sank moaning to the floor.
1966 L. Braun Cat who could read Backwards iv. 43 Only the historic weapons stirred his enthusiasm..Spanish stylets and rapiers, Italian poniards.
1986 Wired Nov. 138/3 We've got a long pig-iron poniard with a fingerprint-proof handle made of tightly-wrapped string.
b. figurative and in figurative context.
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1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 232 She speakes poynyards, and euery word stabbes. View more context for this quotation
1641 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. I. v. 104 Every motion made them give Allarum's, all which were punyards which wounded Philip.
1781 R. Jephson Count of Narbonne iii. vi. 45 My son, my son, Thy words are poniards here.
1838 H. H. Milman tr. F. Guizot in E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xvi. 479 (note) He instantly issued edicts, written, if I may use the expression, with a poniard.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick liv. 277 Stabbing him in the eye with the unflinching poniard of his glance.
1901 N. Amer. Rev. Feb. 220 Gibraltar is a poniard, always plunged into a wound that has never been healed.
1937 L. Mann Murder in Sydney iv. 59 The water darkened into a glossy darkness, stabbed with quivering poniards of gold.
1996 Éire-Ireland Spring–Summer 54 Law is the poniard with which England stabs her victims before she undisguisedly proceeds to noonday murder.
2. English regional (south-western). A farm implement used in stacking hay. rare.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > other agricultural implements
visgy1777
tomahawk1793
potato-scoop1810
rice stick1832
seed feeder1851
poniard1874
aphicide1883
thinner1943
mist blower1946
dung fork1951
wind-machine1976
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. vii. 82 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.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

poniardv.

Brit. /ˈpɒnjəd/, /ˈpɒnjɑːd/, U.S. /ˈpɑnjərd/
Forms: see poniard n.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: poniard n.
Etymology: < poniard n. Compare Middle French, French poignarder (1556 in sense 1).
1. transitive. To stab, esp. to death, with a poniard. Also figurative. Now chiefly historical.
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the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > kill [verb (transitive)] > by stabbing or cutting
snithec725
ofstingeOE
stickOE
to sting to death13..
to put (do) to the sword1338
throata1382
to strike dead, to (the) deathc1390
hewc1400
stab1530
to stab (a person) in1530
poniard1593
stiletto1613
jugulate1623
kris1625
dagger1694
pike1787
to cut down1821
sword1863
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > wound with sharp weapon
woundc760
stickOE
snese?c1225
stokea1300
steekc1300
bearc1330
stangc1340
chop1362
broach1377
foinc1380
strikec1390
borea1400
dag?a1400
gorea1400
gridea1400
staira1400
through-girdc1405
thrustc1410
runc1425
to run throughc1425
traversec1425
spitc1430
through-seeka1500
stitch1527
falchiona1529
stab1530
to stab (a person) in1530
stob?1530
rutc1540
rove?c1550
push1551
foxa1566
stoga1572
poniard1593
dirk1599
bestab1600
poach1602
stiletto1613
stocka1640
inrun1653
stoccado1677
dagger1694
whip1699
bayonetc1700
tomahawk1711
stug1722
chiv1725
kittle1786
sabre1790
halberd1825
jab1825
skewer1837
sword1863
poke1866
spear1869
whinger1892
pig-stick1902
shiv1926
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > use of knives > stab with knife [verb (transitive)]
poniard1593
dirk1599
dagger1694
shank1949
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 39v He was all to be poynyarded in the Senate house.
1601 W. T. tr. R. Nannini Civill Consid. 16 In continual feare to be poyniarded.
1605 1st Pt. Jeronimo sig. Biiv I should haue Ponyarded the villaynes bowels.
1684 J. Dryden tr. L. Maimbourg Hist. League iii. 409 Those of the 45 who had Ponyarded the Duke, refus'd in plain terms to embrue their hands in the bloud of a Cardinal.
1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Mar. (1965) I. 380 She threw her selfe at the Sultan's feet and begg'd him to poniard her.
1781 W. Cowper Charity 508 Prepared to poignard whomsoe'er they meet.
1820 W. Scott Abbot I. iv. 94 That this young esquire shall poniard the servants, as well as switch and batton them.
1887 G. Saintsbury Hist. Elizabethan Lit. iii. 76 He was poniarded in self-defence by..a serving-man.
1945 E. A. Popham Drawings Leonardo Da Vinci vi. 53 Another minute sheet at Venice has three studies for the two men beneath the horses' bellies, one poniarding the other.
1996 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 6 Dec. a De Malavoy hones his own wit, learns how to bait and poniard rivals.
2. transitive. To fasten or fix up (a person's hair) with long pins. Obsolete. rare.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > fastening > fasten [verb (transitive)] > with pins or pegs > with specific type
thorn1605
poniard1620
dowel1712
toggle1836
pivot1842
safety-pin1892
1620 T. Middleton & W. Rowley World Tost sig. Fv Those faire Ladies..are neither trimm'd nor truss'd, nor ponyarded.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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