单词 | poniard |
释义 | poniardn. 1. a. A small, slim dagger. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 1. transitive. To stab, esp. to death, with a poniard. Also figurative. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1533v.1593 |
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