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poniard
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synonyms: bodkin, dirk, anlace, stiletto ???
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Definition:a small, sharp-tipped dagger
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His vigorous form was tightly clad in a brown-coloured doublet; a small chiselled poniard hung against his left thigh, and he cast round laughing looks showing his white teeth.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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Manfred, more enraged at the vigour, however decently exerted, with which the young man had shaken off his hold, than appeased by his submission, ordered his attendants to seize him, and, if he had not been withheld by his friends whom he had invited to the nuptials, would have poignarded the peasant in their arms.
Horace Walpole. The Castle of Otranto (1764)
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