poniard

Speech parts

1. poniard - Noun

2. poniard - Verb

Meaning

A kind of dagger, -- usually a slender one with a triangular or square blade.

To pierce with a poniard; to stab.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

dirk knife dagger bodkin stiletto pierce dag dew lance cutlass claymore brand blade spear bayonet
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Antonyms

spoon

Hypernyms

knife dagger stab sticker

Related terms

repugnant pugilism pugnacious repugn impugn

Derivatives

poniarded poniarding

Anagrams

Padroni Dorpian paridon poinard podrina

Examples

The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab. Joseph Conrad

The poniard and the stiletto were once the resource of a murderous spirit; now the vengeance, which formerly would assassinate in the dark, libels character, in the light of day, through the medium of the press. But through this instrumentality good can be wrought as well as evil. Horace Mann

I welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth. Aneurin Bevan

There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth. Lord Byron

Close letter words and terms

Pongol Pongratz pongy Poniatowski ponibility ponies