vorpal
Adjective
Meaning
Sharp or deadly.
(role-playing games, of a blade) Having a special power making decapitation likely.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgExamples
One, two One, two and through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.
Eventually he was able to teleport back to Oerth, but when he acquired two vorpal blades, Rob Kuntz and Gary Gygax decided he had become too powerful, and lured him into a demon's clutches.
He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought— So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought.
One, two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
The demon took him to an alternative plane that drained the magic from the vorpal blades, destroying them.