cuchillo

→ Cebuano: kutsilyo

→ Ivatan: kuchiliu

→ Mapudungun: kucijo

→ Mecayapan Nahuatl: cochi̱loj

→ Oluta Popoluca: cuchi̱nu

→ San Juan Atzingo Popoloca: cochiyó

→ San Juan Colorado Mixtec: cutsilu

→ Southeastern Tepehuan: kuxiir

→ Tagalog: kutsilyo

→ Zoogocho Zapotec: cwšiyw

rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines

Inherited from Old Spanish cuchiello, from Latin cultellus, a diminutive of culter. Cognate with English cutlery. Compare English cutlass also.


TNT

The third sense is an initialism of the Tagalog phrase, tago nang tago (literally, “hide and hide”).


TNT

Abbreviation of trinitrotolueno (“trinitrotoluene”).


trinitrotoluene

A highly explosive yellow crystalline substance, (CH₃C₆H₂(NO₂)₃), obtained by reacting nitric acid with toluene

trinitrotoluol

a highly explosive yellow crystalline substance


pala

head

pala (definite accusative palayı, plural palalar)

palayı (accusative definite)
palalar (plural)


shimada

Borrowed from Arawakan; compare Lokono shimarha.


Tizona

The sword of Rodrigo Díaz, known as El Cid ("the Lord" or "the Master"). Also called just Cid or Campeador, a famous Castilian knight born in Vivar, Spain.


cannonball

From cannon + ball from being a round ball that is fired from a cannon.

A spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon.

kanonkoeël

An explosive-filled hollow iron sphere fused through a hole and intended to explode at a calculated distance rather than explode on impact.


bowyer

From Middle English bowyere, bowȝere, variant forms of bowere (“bowyer”), equivalent to bow + -yer.

A clause of a former act directing the bowyers of London and Westminster to make four bows of different wood for one of yew, was repealed on their representation that the citizens of London would use none but yew bows, and in its place they were ordered always to have by them at least fifty bows of elm, witch-hasel, or ash.

1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, pages 38–39:

A person who makes or sells bows (for use with arrows).

(archaic) A person who uses the bow, an archer.


bracer

From Middle English bracer, from Old French braceure; equivalent to brace + -er.

To prevent the bow string from hanging on the left arm, it is covered with a piece of smooth leather, fastened on the outside of the arm, this is called a bracer.

1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 34:

(archery) A covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string.


gisarme

From Middle English gisarme, from Old French guisarme; compare modern French guisarme.

The Gisarme called also gisaring, and, by Fleta, sisarmes is likewise an ancient weapon of the staff kind, but of what for seems doubtful.

1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 49:

A type of polearm having a spearhead and a reverse hooked spike on the back.


morris

Another kind of pike called a morris, that is a Moorish pike, was much in fashion about the reigns of Henry VIII. and Elizabeth.


morris

From Morris, the surname of its discoverer.

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909

(obsolete) The young of the conger eel or similar fish, originally thought to be a separate species.


mallet

From Middle English malet, maylet, from Old French mallet, maillet (“a wooden hammer, mallet”), diminutive of mal, mail (“a hammer”), from Latin malleus (“a hammer, mall, mallet”).

der

Carpenters use mallets for assembling.

We used a mallet to drive the tent pegs into the ground.

A type of hammer with a larger-than-usual head made of wood, rubber or similar non-iron material, used by woodworkers for driving a tool, such as a chisel. A kind of maul.

The Mallet of arms, according to the representation of it given by Father Daniel, exactly resembles the wooden instrument of that name, now in use, except in the length of the handle, it was like the hammer of arms, to be used with both hands, indeed it differed very little from that weapon in its form.

1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 51:

(weaponry) A weapon resembling the tool, but typically much larger.

(music) A small hammer-like tool used for playing certain musical instruments.

(games) A light beetle with a long handle used in playing croquet.

I regularly have cause to recall a scene from a novel called Madder Music, by Peter de Vries, in which the main character, a writer who specialises in polo, hears a match announcer telling newcomers to the ground that, contrary to popular belief, the ball is struck with the side of the mallet, rather than the end.

2016 September 13, Tim Dowling, “Order force: the old grammar rule we all obey without realising”, in The Guardian:

(sports) The stick used to strike the ball in the sport of polo.


mawle

A mawle of lead five feet long, and a pike with the same hanging by a girdle with a hook, is recommended by Ralph Smith for the arms of an archer, it has been quoted at length, under the article of the long bow.

1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 52:

A heavy hammer or beetle, often made of wood or lead.


malle

There is also an entry of two hundred Malles in a store house at Berwick.


espada

From Latin spatha (“a type of sword”), from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “broad blade”).


espada

Borrowed from Spanish espada, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē).


espada

the African spear (Sansevieria cylindrica)


espada

a long, thin, bright green chili closely resembling the cayenne and Basque Fryer peppers


espada

From Old Galician-Portuguese espada, from Latin spatha (“a type of sword”), from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “broad blade”). Doublet of espata.


espada

Spanish: espada

From Latin spatham, accusative of spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “blade”).

Myo çid Ruy diaz el que en buẽ ora çinxo eſpada
My Cid, Ruy Díaz, who at a good time he girded himself with a sword (common epithet of the Cid)

between 1140 and 1207, Anonymous (or Per Abbat), Cantar de mío Cid 58

De natura es fria & humida / Et fazen della mangos pora cuchiello & pora eſpadas

It is cold and damp in nature, and they make handles for knives and swords out of it

la uertud dela figura de om̃e cauallero ſobre un leon, & que tenga en la mano dieſtra eſpada deſnuda, & en la ſinieſtra cabeça de om̃e

the virtue of the figure of a knightly man riding a lion, with an unsheathed sword at his right hand and the head of a man at his left hand


espada

→ Assamese: ইস্পাত (ispat)

→ Bengali: ইস্পাত (iśpat)

→ Gujarati: ઇસપાત (isapāt, “steel”)

→ Hindustani:

Hindi: इस्पात (ispāt)

Urdu: اسپات (ispāt)

→ Japanese: スベタ

desc

𑒃𑒮𑒣𑒰𑒞 / इसपात

→ Maithili: 𑒃𑒮𑒣𑒰𑒞 / इसपात (𑒃𑒮𑒣𑒰𑒞 / isᵊpāt)

→ Punjabi:

Gurmukhi script: ਇਸਪਾਤ (isapāt)

Shahmukhi script: اسپات (ispāt)

From Old Galician-Portuguese espada, through prothesis from Latin spatha (“a type of sword”), from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “broad blade”), likely from Proto-Indo-European *sph₂-dʰ-.


espada

Inherited from Old Spanish espada, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē). Doublet of espata.


espada

Borrowed from Spanish espada, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē). Compare Tausug ispara.


espasa

Inherited from Old Catalan (which also had a variant espaa), from Latin spatha (“sword”) (compare Occitan espasa, Spanish espada, French épée), from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē).

(card games, in the plural) swords; a suit in the Spanish deck of cards


espasa

From Old Occitan espaza, espada, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “any broad blade, of wood or metal”). Attested from the 12th century.


spada

From Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē). Cognates include Italian spada and Spanish espada.


spada

From Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē).

Nu’ iè truvato spada, che me talgia,

1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 68:

I have not found a sword that would cut me,


spada

desctree

→ Polish: szpada
→ Russian: шпага (špaga)
→ Romanian: șpagă

From earlier spata, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē), from Proto-Indo-European *sph₂dʰh₁éh₂, derived from *(s)peh₂- (“to draw”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to do; to put”) + *-eh₂ (feminine noun ending). Doublet of spata.


Schwert

de-noun

Schwert n (strong, genitive Schwertes or Schwerts, plural Schwerter)

Schwertes (genitive)
Schwerts (genitive)
Schwerter (plural)
Schwert (nominative singular)
Schwerter (definite nominative plural)
Schwertes (genitive singular)
Schwerts (genitive singular)
Schwerter (definite genitive plural)
Schwert (dative singular)
Schwerte (dative singular)
Schwertern (dative definite plural)
Schwert (accusative singular)
Schwerter (accusative definite plural)

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Berlin
Wolfgang Pfeifer (etymologist)

From Middle High German swert, from Old High German swert (attested since the 8th century); from Proto-West Germanic *swerd, from Proto-Germanic *swerdą, from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to fester, to cut”).
Germanic cognates with identical meaning include Hunsrik Schweert, Low German Sweerd, Dutch zwaard, Afrikaans swaard, English sword, West Frisian swurd, Danish sværd, Norwegian sverd, Swedish svärd, Icelandic sverð, Faroese svørð.
The further etymology outside the Germanic branch is currently unknown. *swerdą, swerða- seems to be a nominal derivative with dental suffix originating from Indo-European *swer- and may, thus, be a cognate to German schwären (“to fester”).

der

Er zückte augenblicklich sein Schwert.

Das Katana war ein weit verbreitetes Schwert in Japan.

The katana was a very common sword in Japan.

Breitschwert

Langschwert

Schwertwal


svärd

svärd (indefinite nominative singular)
svärds (genitive indefinite singular)
svärdet (definite nominative singular)
svärdets (definite genitive singular)
svärd (indefinite nominative plural)
svärds (genitive indefinite plural)
svärden (definite nominative plural)
svärdens (definite genitive plural)

From Old Swedish sværþ, from Old Norse sverð, from Proto-Germanic *swerdą, from Proto-Indo-European *su̯r̥dhom, ultimately from *swer- (“to cut; to fester”).

Riddaren drog sitt svärd

Han svingade svärdet

Han stötte svärdet i drakens buk

He thrust his sword into the belly of the dragon

Han högg av tentakeln med svärdet

Han stack svärdet i skidan

svärdets vassa egg

smida ett svärd


truncheon

/ˈtɹʌnt͡ʃən/

/ˈtɹʌnt͡ʃən/

From Middle English tronchoun, from Old French tronchon (“thick stick”), from Late Latin *troncionem, from Latin truncus.

Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword / The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe / Become them with one half so good a grace / As mercy does.

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], line 60:

A baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer.

полицейска палка

a baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer


morning star

en-noun

morning star (countable and uncountable, plural morning stars)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-morning star.wav

From morning + star. Compare West Frisian moarnstjer, Dutch morgenster, German Morgenstern, Swedish morgonstjärna, Icelandic morgunstjarna. Application to Satan derives, like the corresponding sense of Lucifer (which see), from what is probably a misinterpretation of Isaiah 14:12 (NIV: "How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!").

Contrivances like these, except that the balls were armed with spikes, were long carried by the pioneers of the trained bands, or city militia, they are generally called morning stars.

1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, […], London: […] S. Hooper, […], →OCLC, page 55:

(countable, weaponry) A weapon consisting of a heavy ball set with spikes attached rigidly to a staff, in contrast to a flail.


glaive

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-glaive.wav

From Middle English gleyve (“lance, glaive”), from Old French glaive (“lance; sword”), from Late Latin glavus. The further etymology is uncertain; one possibility is that glavus reflects Latin gladius (“sword”) crossed with clāva (“club”); another is that it derives from a re-crossing of gladius with Proto-Celtic *kladiwos (“sword”); yet another is that it is a borrowing into Late Latin from Old Irish claideb. All of the aforementioned words derive ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- (“to beat; to break”). The Oxford English Dictionary notes that none of these words had the oldest meaning of Old French glaive (“lance”). The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch glavie, glaye (“lance”); Middle High German glavîe, glævîn (“lance”), Swedish glaven (“lance”).

ref

From Wendelin Boeheim (1890) “Die Glese und die Couse”, in Handbuch der Waffenkunde. Das Waffenwesen in seiner historischen Entwicklung vom Beginn des Mittelalters bis zum Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts [Handbook of Weapon Knowledge. Weaponry in Its Historical Development from the Beginning of the Middle Ages to the End of the 18th Century.] (Seemanns kunstgewerbliche Handbücher; VII), Leipzig: E. A. Seemann, →OCLC, figure 396, pages 343–344.

der

[T]he glaiue which he did wield / He gan forthwith t'auale, and way vnto me yield.

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 19, page 144:

Wherefore do you ſo ill tranſlate yourſelf, / Out of the ſpeech of peace, that bears ſuch grace, / Into the harſh and boiſt'rous tongue of war? / Turning your books to glaives, your ink to blood, / Your pens to lances, and your tongue divine / To a loud trumpet, and a point of war?

c. 1596–1599, William Shakespear[e], “The Second Part of Henry IV. […]”, in The Works of Mr. William Shakespear, volume III (Consisting of Historical Plays), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon-Press, published 1770, →OCLC, act IV, scene i, page 426:

Juſtice were cruel weakly to relent; / From Mercy’s Self ſhe got her ſacred Glaive: / Grace be to thoſe who can, and will, repent; / But Penance long, and dreary, to the Slave, / Who muſt in Floods of Fire his groſs ſoul Spirit lave.

1748, James Thomson, “Canto II”, in The Castle of Indolence: […], London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, stanza XXXIX, page 60:

Thus furth he drew his truſty glaive, / While thouſands all arround, / Drawn frae their ſheaths glanſt in the ſun, / And loud the bougills ſound.

1750, Allan Ramsay, “Hardyknute. A Fragment of an Old Heroic Ballad.”, in The Tea-table Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Choice Songs, Scots and English, […], 11th edition, volume I, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, stanza XXI, page 215:

Yea, that same awful angel with the glaive / Which in disparadising orbit swept / Lintel and pilaster and architrave

a. 1908 (date written), Francis Thompson, “[Miscellaneous Odes.] Laus Amara Doloris”, in The Works of Francis Thompson, volume II (Poems), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons […], published 1913, →OCLC, page 124:

(loosely or poetic, archaic) A sword, particularly a broadsword.


glaive

Inherited from Old French glaive, from Late Latin glavus; see the entry for English glaive for further information.


glaive

fro-noun

glaive oblique singular, m or f (oblique plural glaives, nominative singular glaives, nominative plural glaive)

glaive oblique singular or (canonical feminine masculine)
glaives (oblique plural)
glaives (nominative singular)
glaive (nominative plural)

French: glaive

→ Middle Dutch: glavie, glaye

→ Old Norse: glefia

→ Middle Low German: glave

→ Old Swedish: glaven

Swedish: glav

→ Old Danish: glawen

Danish: glavind

desctree

→ Middle English: gleyve, cleyve, glaive, glayfe, glayffe, glayve, gleve, gleywe, glyve
English: glaive
Scots: glaive

→ Middle High German: gleve

→ Old Catalan: glavi

From Late Latin glavus, representing a hybrid of gladius and clāva (“club”). Alternatively, from an original *glede (from Latin gladius) with influence from Gaulish gladebo (“sword”). Both terms are ultimately from Proto-Celtic *kladiwos (“sword”). Alternatively, the d in *glede that had come to be pronounced as /ð/ in Old French may have been fronted to /v/ (perhaps influenced by the Gaulish word). Gender was variable in the oldest texts.

Son glaive i a li Dus lessié


sverð

is-noun

sverð n (genitive singular sverðs, nominative plural sverð)

sverðs (genitive singular)
sverð (nominative plural)
sverð (indefinite nominative singular)
sverðið (definite nominative singular)
sverð (indefinite nominative plural)
sverðin (definite nominative plural)
sverð (accusative indefinite singular)
sverðið (accusative definite singular)
sverð (accusative indefinite plural)
sverðin (accusative definite plural)
sverði (dative indefinite singular)
sverðinu (dative definite singular)
sverðum (dative indefinite plural)
sverðunum (dative definite plural)
sverðs (genitive indefinite singular)
sverðsins (definite genitive singular)
sverða (genitive indefinite plural)
sverðanna (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse sverð, from Proto-Germanic *swerdą, most likely from Proto-Indo-European *swer-.

Revelation 6-11 (English and Icelandic)

I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.

Og ég sá, og sjá: Bleikur hestur, og sá er á honum sat, hann hét Dauði, og Hel var í för með honum. Þeim var gefið vald yfir fjórða hluta jarðarinnar, til þess að deyða með sverði, með hungri og drepsótt og láta menn farast fyrir villidýrum jarðarinnar.

Jesús sagði við hann: „Slíðra sverð þitt! Allir, sem sverði bregða, munu fyrir sverði falla.“

"Put your sword back in its place," Jesus said to him, "for all who draw the sword will die by the sword."


sverð

sverðs (genitive)
sverð (plural)
sverð (indefinite nominative singular)
sverðit (definite nominative singular)
sverð (indefinite nominative plural)
sverðin (definite nominative plural)
sverð (accusative indefinite singular)
sverðit (accusative definite singular)
sverð (accusative indefinite plural)
sverðin (accusative definite plural)
sverði (dative indefinite singular)
sverðinu (dative definite singular)
sverðum (dative indefinite plural)
sverðunum (dative definite plural)
sverðs (genitive indefinite singular)
sverðsins (definite genitive singular)
sverða (genitive indefinite plural)
sverðanna (definite genitive plural)

non-decl-blank-full

sverð

Icelandic: sverð

Faroese: svørð

desc

Norwegian Nynorsk: sverd; (dialectal) svørd

Norwegian Bokmål: sverd

Old Swedish: sværþ

Swedish: svärd

Old Danish: swærth

Danish: sværd

From Proto-Germanic *swerdą, most likely from Proto-Indo-European *swer-. Compare Old English sweord, Old Frisian swerd, Old Saxon swerd, Old Dutch swerd, Old High German swert.


ferril

Fig. 3. A battle ax, in the collection of Mr. Rawle. Fig. 4. Its butt end and iron ferril, the staff on which it is fixed is octagonal, and measures five feet four inches.

1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page xiii:

A metal cap on the butt end of a weapon shaft, often having a sharp point.


firecracker

She said she was awakened abruptly Friday night by the kid next door setting off a firecracker.

2011, Ken Casper, As the Crow Dies, page 120:

A small explosive device, typically containing a small amount of gunpowder in a tightly-wound roll of paper, primarily designed to produce a large bang.


firework

Commercial firework displays are commonly launched from boats or other vessels

Saltpetre being the principal ingredient in fireworks, and a volatile body, by reaſon of its aqueous and aërial parts, is eaſily rarified by fire; but not ſo ſoon when foul and groſs, as when purified from its crude and earthy parts, which greatly retard its velocity: therefore, when any quantity of Fireworks are to be made, it ſhould be examined; for if it is not well cleanſed, and of a good ſort, your works will not have their proper effect; […]

1776, Robert Jones, John Muller, “Sect. I. Saltpetre.”, in Artificial Fireworks, Improved to the Modern Practice, from the Minutest to the Highest Branches; … Also, Mr. Muller's Fireworks, for Sea and Land Service, …, 2nd corr. edition, London: Printed for J. Millan, near Whitehall, →OCLC, page 1:

A device using gunpowder and other chemicals which, when lit, emits a combination of coloured flames, sparks, whistles or bangs, and sometimes made to rocket high into the sky before exploding, used for entertainment or celebration.


sword-breaker

The deepest indentations are in the so-called Sword-breakers (brise-épées), mostly of the fifteenth century.

1884, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “The Sword: What is It?”, in The Book of the Sword, London: Chatto and Windus, […], →OCLC, page 138:

A short sword or dagger with a deeply notched or toothed blade, or with secondary projections, designed to catch or grapple an opponent's weapon.


backsword

A stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements.


quillon

following the French word, same as the singular

Unadapted borrowing from French quillon (literally “little ninepin”), from quille (“club; ninepin, skittle”) (from the similar appearance) + -on (diminutive suffix). Quille is derived from Middle High German kegel (“club”), from Old High German kegil, from Proto-West Germanic *kagil (“pile, pole, stake; peg, pin”), from *kagō (“bush, shrub”) + *-il (diminutive suffix).

ref

From the collection of the Livrustkammaren (Royal Armoury) in Stockholm, Sweden.

der

Holonym: hilt

Comeronyms: grip, pommel, ricasso

The Sword of State which is carried before the King at the opening of Parliament is quite a different weapon. It is a long, two-handed sword, with a gold hilt and quillion, and is encased in a crimson velvet scabbard. […] The quillion of the sword is formed of an elongated lion on one side, and a similarly maltreated unicorn on the other.

1921, George Younghusband, “The Regalia—continued”, in The Jewel House: An Account of the Many Romances Connected with the Royal Regalia […], London: Herbert Jenkins […], →OCLC, page 53:

The guard [of the cavalry officers' saber] consists of a knuckle-bow bent in the stirrup pattern. The bow gradually expands until it makes it turn up towards the blade. At that point it swells rapidly to form a broad quillon, and a branch swings out in a full semi-circle on the obverse side, joining the quillon again at its tip above the blade. A single bar connects the branch and the quillon opposite the upper edge of the grips.

1965, Harold L[eslie] Peterson, “Officers’ Swords”, in The American Sword 1775–1945, revised edition, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, published 2003, →ISBN, page 90:

'You will remark the short quillion on this piece,' he added, touching the sword crosspiece. 'More to your sea tastes, I believe. And the grips—for a fighting sword we have ivory, filigree—'

2005, Julian Stockwin, chapter 2, in Tenacious, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 30:

crossguard

Synonym of crossguard (“a metal bar fixed between, and at right angles to, the blade and the handle of a sword or other bladed weapon that stops an opponent's similar weapon from sliding along the blade and injuring the hand of the person wielding the sword”)

kullon

synonym of crossguard (cognates) — see also crossguard


smelly

A comical pronunciation of the initials SMLE.

(firearms, informal) a Short Magazine Lee Enfield rifle or one of its derivatives.


toledo

Peregrine's weapon entering a kind of net work in the shell of Godfrey's sword, the blade snapped in two, and left him at the mercy of the soldier, who, far from making an insolent use of the victory he had gained, put up his Toledo with great deliberation […].

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter XXXI, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume I, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

A long toledo, vvith a hilt of filigrained ſteel, length of the blade three feet nine inches, finely tapering to a point.

1786, Francis Grose, “Description of the Plates. Plate XXXIX.”, in A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, […], London: […] S. Hooper, […], →OCLC, page xv:

‘Fair Neophyte, beautiful Christian,’ answered the stranger, with a diabolical sneer, ‘be it known to you that I regard bolts, and bars, and walls, as much as I did the breakers and rocks of your Indian isle—that I can go where, and retire when I please, without leave asked or taken of your brother’s mastiffs, or Toledos, or spring-guns, and in utter defiance of your mother’s advanced guard of duennas, armed in spectacles, and flanked with a double ammunition of rosaries, with beads as large as—’

1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 274:

A sword or sword blade made at Toledo in Spain, a city famous in the 16th and 17th centuries for the excellence of its weapons.


bayonet

From French baïonnette, named after the French town of Bayonne, where the plug bayonet was invented.

Fig. 3. Its bayonet, to be fixed by sticking the handle into the muzzle of the musquet.

1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page xvi:

“Well, the proper way to kill a man with a bayonet is this: First you thrust it in under the ribs—here.”

1997, Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; republished New York: Vintage Books, 1998, →ISBN, page 515:

(military) A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offence and defence. Originally, the bayonet was made with a handle, which needed to be fitted into the bore of the musket after the soldier had fired.


musket

First attested around 1210 as a surname, and later in the 1400s as a word for the sparrowhawk (Middle English forms: musket, muskett, muskete (“sparrow hawk”)), from Middle French mousquet, from Old Italian moschetto (a diminutive of mosca (“fly”), from Latin musca) used to refer initially to a sparrowhawk (given its small size or speckled appearance) and then a crossbow arrow. The name was subsequently adopted for a heavier, shoulder-fired version of an arquebus, adhering to a pattern of naming firearms and cannons after birds of prey and similar creatures (compare falcon, falconet), a sense which was also borrowed into French and then (around 1580) into English. Cognate to Spanish mosquete, Portuguese mosquete. Smoothbore firearms continued to be called muskets even as they switched from using matchlocks to flintlocks to percussion locks, but with the advent of rifled muskets, the word was finally displaced by rifle.

Eurasian sparrowhawk
Eurasian sparrowhawk

Accipiter nisus
Accipiter nisus#Translingual

(falconry) A male Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus).


musket

head

musket c (singular definite musketten, plural indefinite musketter)

musketten (definite singular)
musketter (indefinite plural)
musket (indefinite nominative singular)
musketten (definite nominative singular)
musketter (indefinite nominative plural)
musketterne (definite nominative plural)
muskets (genitive indefinite singular)
muskettens (definite genitive singular)
musketters (genitive indefinite plural)
musketternes (definite genitive plural)


lance

From Middle English launce, from Old French lance, from Latin lancea.

Thy brother’s blood the thirsty earth hath drunk, Broach’d with the steely point of Clifford’s lance[…]

c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], line 15:

The head of the lance was commonly of the leaf form, and sometimes approached that of the lozenge; it was very seldom barbed, although this variety, together with the others, appears upon the Bayeux Tapestry.

1909, Charles Henry Ashdown, European Arms & Armor, page 65:

A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.

(fishing) A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.

(military) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.

Harpune mit Sprenggeschoss

(military) instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordinance

(pyrotechnics) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.


lance

fro-noun

lance oblique singular, f (oblique plural lances, nominative singular lance, nominative plural lances)

lance oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
lances (oblique plural)
lance (nominative singular)
lances (nominative plural)

Franc-Comtois: laince

Middle French: lance

French: lance

→ Middle English: launce

English: lance

→ Middle High German: lanze

German: Lanze


lance

lănci (plural)
lance (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
lancea (accusative definite nominative singular)
lănci (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
lăncile (accusative definite nominative plural)
lănci (indefinite singular)
lăncii (definite singular)
lăncilor (definite plural)
lance (singular vocative)
lanceo (singular vocative)
lăncilor (vocative)

Borrowed from Italian lancia (18th century).


fusil

desctree

Saint Dominican Creole French: fisil
Haitian Creole: fizi

→ Louisiana Creole: fizi

→ Catalan: fusell

→ Spanish: fusil

→ Portuguese: fuzil

From Old French fuisil, foisil, from Vulgar Latin *focīlis (petra), from Latin focus. Compare Italian fucile.


fusil

→ Cebuano: pusil
→ Western Bukidnon Manobo: pusil

→ Ilocano: pusil


פצצה אטומית

he-noun

פְּצָצָה אֲטוֹמִית

פְּצָצוֹת אָטוֹמִיּוֹת

פְּצָצָה אֲטוֹמִית • (ptsatsá atomít) f (plural indefinite [פְּצָצָה]]_אֲטוֹמִית " lang="he">פְּצָצוֹת אָטוֹמִיּוֹת, no construct forms)

פְּצָצָה אֲטוֹמִית (canonical)
ptsatsá atomít (romanization)
פְּצָצוֹת אָטוֹמִיּוֹת (indefinite plural)

atomic bomb
atomic bomb#English:_Q650051

(countable, military) atomic bomb, A-bomb


פצצה

פְּצָצָה • (ptsatsá) f (plural indefinite פְּצָצוֹת, singular construct פְּצָצַת־ or פיצצת־)

פְּצָצָה (canonical)
ptsatsá (romanization)
פְּצָצוֹת (indefinite plural)
פְּצָצַת־ (construct singular)
פיצצת־ (construct singular)

Root
 פ־צ־ץ (p-ts-ts)
 0 terms
Coined by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda based on a Biblical Hebrew root, נ־פ־ץ (n-p-ts).

הסרט אתמול היה פצצה.

The film yesterday was amazing [literally was a bomb].

(slang) Something amazing or beautiful; the bomb.


sacar

pt-verb

sacar (first-person singular present saco, first-person singular preterite saquei, past participle sacado)

saco (first-person present singular)
saquei (first-person preterite singular)
sacado (participle past)
sacar (impersonal infinitive)
sacar (first-person infinitive singular)
sacares (infinitive second-person singular)
sacar (infinitive singular third-person)
sacarmos (first-person infinitive plural)
sacardes (infinitive plural second-person)
sacarem (infinitive plural third-person)
sacando (gerund)
sacado (masculine participle past singular)
sacados (masculine participle past plural)
sacada (feminine participle past singular)
sacadas (feminine participle past plural)
saco (first-person indicative present singular)
sacas (indicative present second-person singular)
saca (indicative present singular third-person)
sacamos (first-person indicative plural present)
sacais (indicative plural present second-person)
sacam (indicative plural present third-person)
sacava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
sacavas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
sacava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
sacávamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
sacáveis (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
sacavam (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
saquei (first-person indicative preterite singular)
sacaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
sacou (indicative preterite singular third-person)
sacamos (Brazil first-person indicative plural preterite)
sacámos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
sacastes (indicative plural preterite second-person)
sacaram (indicative plural preterite third-person)
sacara (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
sacaras (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
sacara (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
sacáramos (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
sacáreis (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
sacaram (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
sacarei (first-person future indicative singular)
sacarás (future indicative second-person singular)
sacará (future indicative singular third-person)
sacaremos (first-person future indicative plural)
sacareis (future indicative plural second-person)
sacarão (future indicative plural third-person)
sacaria (conditional first-person singular)
sacarias (conditional second-person singular)
sacaria (conditional singular third-person)
sacaríamos (conditional first-person plural)
sacaríeis (conditional plural second-person)
sacariam (conditional plural third-person)
saque (first-person present singular subjunctive)
saques (present second-person singular subjunctive)
saque (present singular subjunctive third-person)
saquemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
saqueis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
saquem (plural present subjunctive third-person)
sacasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
sacasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
sacasse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
sacássemos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
sacásseis (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
sacassem (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
sacar (first-person future singular subjunctive)
sacares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
sacar (future singular subjunctive third-person)
sacarmos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
sacardes (future plural second-person subjunctive)
sacarem (future plural subjunctive third-person)
saca (imperative second-person singular)
saque (imperative singular third-person)
saquemos (first-person imperative plural)
sacai (imperative plural second-person)
saquem (imperative plural third-person)
não saques (imperative negative second-person singular)
não saque (imperative negative singular third-person)
não saquemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
não saqueis (imperative negative plural second-person)
não saquem (imperative negative plural third-person)

From Old Galician-Portuguese sacar, probably from Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌰𐌽 (sakan, “to dispute, rebuke”), from Proto-Germanic *sakaną (“to dispute, rebuke”). Compare Spanish sacar.

der

(colloquial, computing, Internet) to download


catapult

From Middle French catapulte, from Latin catapulta, from Ancient Greek καταπέλτης (katapéltēs), from κατά (katá, “downwards, into, against”) + πάλλω (pállō, “I poise or sway a missile before it is thrown”). Doublet of catapulta.


clay

en-noun

clay (usually uncountable, plural clays)

soul

antonym(s) of “material of the human body”

From Middle English cley, clay, from Old English clǣġ (“clay”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaij, from Proto-Germanic *klajjaz (“clay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to glue, paste, stick together”).
Cognate with Dutch klei (“clay”), Low German Klei (“clay”), German Klei, Danish klæg (“clay”); compare Ancient Greek γλία (glía), Latin glūten (“glue”) (whence ultimately English glue), Russian глина (glina, “clay”). Related also to clag, clog.

der

We went shooting clays at the weekend.


москит

ru-noun+

моски́т • (moskít) m anim (genitive моски́та, nominative plural моски́ты, genitive plural моски́тов, relational adjective моски́тный)

моски́т (canonical)
moskít (romanization)
моски́та (genitive)
моски́ты (nominative plural)
моски́тов (genitive plural)
моски́тный (adjective relational)
моски́т (nominative singular)
моски́ты (nominative plural)
моски́та (genitive singular)
моски́тов (genitive plural)
моски́ту (dative singular)
моски́там (dative plural)
моски́та (accusative singular)
моски́тов (accusative plural)
моски́том (instrumental singular)
моски́тами (instrumental plural)
моски́те (prepositional singular)
моски́тах (plural prepositional)

→ Yiddish: מאָסקיט (moskit)

sandfly, phlebotomine (any fly of the subfamily Phlebotominae)

P-270 Moskit (Soviet supersonic ramjet powered anti-ship cruise missile)


beryl

pl-noun

beryl m inan (related adjective berylowy)

berylowy (adjective)
beryl (nominative singular)
beryle (nominative plural)
berylu (genitive singular)
beryli (genitive plural)
berylowi (dative singular)
berylom (dative plural)
beryl (accusative singular)
beryle (accusative plural)
berylem (instrumental singular)
berylami (instrumental plural)
berylu (locative singular)
berylach (locative plural)
berylu (singular vocative)
beryle (plural vocative)

(colloquial, firearms, countable) FB Beryl


maali

maali (nominative singular)
maalit (nominative plural)
maali (accusative nominative singular)
maalit (accusative nominative plural)
maalin (accusative genitive singular)
maalit (accusative genitive plural)
maalin (genitive singular)
maalien (genitive plural)
maalia (partitive singular)
maaleja (partitive plural)
maalissa (inessive singular)
maaleissa (inessive plural)
maalista (elative singular)
maaleista (elative plural)
maaliin (illative singular)
maaleihin (illative plural)
maalilla (adessive singular)
maaleilla (adessive plural)
maalilta (ablative singular)
maaleilta (ablative plural)
maalille (allative singular)
maaleille (allative plural)
maalina (essive singular)
maaleina (essive plural)
maaliksi (singular translative)
maaleiksi (plural translative)
maalitta (abessive singular)
maaleitta (abessive plural)
maalein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
maalini (nominative singular)
maalini (nominative plural)
maalini (accusative nominative singular)
maalini (accusative nominative plural)
maalini (accusative genitive singular)
maalini (accusative genitive plural)
maalini (genitive singular)
maalieni (genitive plural)
maaliani (partitive singular)
maalejani (partitive plural)
maalissani (inessive singular)
maaleissani (inessive plural)
maalistani (elative singular)
maaleistani (elative plural)
maaliini (illative singular)
maaleihini (illative plural)
maalillani (adessive singular)
maaleillani (adessive plural)
maaliltani (ablative singular)
maaleiltani (ablative plural)
maalilleni (allative singular)
maaleilleni (allative plural)
maalinani (essive singular)
maaleinani (essive plural)
maalikseni (singular translative)
maaleikseni (plural translative)
maalittani (abessive singular)
maaleittani (abessive plural)
maaleineni (comitative plural)
maalisi (nominative singular)
maalisi (nominative plural)
maalisi (accusative nominative singular)
maalisi (accusative nominative plural)
maalisi (accusative genitive singular)
maalisi (accusative genitive plural)
maalisi (genitive singular)
maaliesi (genitive plural)
maaliasi (partitive singular)
maalejasi (partitive plural)
maalissasi (inessive singular)
maaleissasi (inessive plural)
maalistasi (elative singular)
maaleistasi (elative plural)
maaliisi (illative singular)
maaleihisi (illative plural)
maalillasi (adessive singular)
maaleillasi (adessive plural)
maaliltasi (ablative singular)
maaleiltasi (ablative plural)
maalillesi (allative singular)
maaleillesi (allative plural)
maalinasi (essive singular)
maaleinasi (essive plural)
maaliksesi (singular translative)
maaleiksesi (plural translative)
maalittasi (abessive singular)
maaleittasi (abessive plural)
maaleinesi (comitative plural)
maalimme (nominative singular)
maalimme (nominative plural)
maalimme (accusative nominative singular)
maalimme (accusative nominative plural)
maalimme (accusative genitive singular)
maalimme (accusative genitive plural)
maalimme (genitive singular)
maaliemme (genitive plural)
maaliamme (partitive singular)
maalejamme (partitive plural)
maalissamme (inessive singular)
maaleissamme (inessive plural)
maalistamme (elative singular)
maaleistamme (elative plural)
maaliimme (illative singular)
maaleihimme (illative plural)
maalillamme (adessive singular)
maaleillamme (adessive plural)
maaliltamme (ablative singular)
maaleiltamme (ablative plural)
maalillemme (allative singular)
maaleillemme (allative plural)
maalinamme (essive singular)
maaleinamme (essive plural)
maaliksemme (singular translative)
maaleiksemme (plural translative)
maalittamme (abessive singular)
maaleittamme (abessive plural)
maaleinemme (comitative plural)
maalinne (nominative singular)
maalinne (nominative plural)
maalinne (accusative nominative singular)
maalinne (accusative nominative plural)
maalinne (accusative genitive singular)
maalinne (accusative genitive plural)
maalinne (genitive singular)
maalienne (genitive plural)
maalianne (partitive singular)
maalejanne (partitive plural)
maalissanne (inessive singular)
maaleissanne (inessive plural)
maalistanne (elative singular)
maaleistanne (elative plural)
maaliinne (illative singular)
maaleihinne (illative plural)
maalillanne (adessive singular)
maaleillanne (adessive plural)
maaliltanne (ablative singular)
maaleiltanne (ablative plural)
maalillenne (allative singular)
maaleillenne (allative plural)
maalinanne (essive singular)
maaleinanne (essive plural)
maaliksenne (singular translative)
maaleiksenne (plural translative)
maalittanne (abessive singular)
maaleittanne (abessive plural)
maaleinenne (comitative plural)
maalinsa (nominative singular)
maalinsa (nominative plural)
maalinsa (accusative nominative singular)
maalinsa (accusative nominative plural)
maalinsa (accusative genitive singular)
maalinsa (accusative genitive plural)
maalinsa (genitive singular)
maaliensa (genitive plural)
maaliaan (partitive singular)
maaliansa (partitive singular)
maalejaan (partitive plural)
maalejansa (partitive plural)
maalissaan (inessive singular)
maalissansa (inessive singular)
maaleissaan (inessive plural)
maaleissansa (inessive plural)
maalistaan (elative singular)
maalistansa (elative singular)
maaleistaan (elative plural)
maaleistansa (elative plural)
maaliinsa (illative singular)
maaleihinsa (illative plural)
maalillaan (adessive singular)
maalillansa (adessive singular)
maaleillaan (adessive plural)
maaleillansa (adessive plural)
maaliltaan (ablative singular)
maaliltansa (ablative singular)
maaleiltaan (ablative plural)
maaleiltansa (ablative plural)
maalilleen (allative singular)
maalillensa (allative singular)
maaleilleen (allative plural)
maaleillensa (allative plural)
maalinaan (essive singular)
maalinansa (essive singular)
maaleinaan (essive plural)
maaleinansa (essive plural)
maalikseen (singular translative)
maaliksensa (singular translative)
maaleikseen (plural translative)
maaleiksensa (plural translative)
maalittaan (abessive singular)
maalittansa (abessive singular)
maaleittaan (abessive plural)
maaleittansa (abessive plural)
maaleineen (comitative plural)
maaleinensa (comitative plural)

Borrowed from Old Swedish māl (“measure, amount; sign”) (compare Swedish mål (“target; what one aims to hit”)), from both Old Norse mál (“language, speech”) (from Proto-Germanic *maþlą) and Old Norse mál (“size, measurement, time”) (from Proto-Germanic *mēlą).

der

(archery) popinjay (target to shoot at, typically stuffed with feathers or plumage)


tomahawk

tomahawk (nominative singular)
tomahawki (nominative plural)
tomahawka (genitive singular)
tomahawków (genitive plural)
tomahawkowi (dative singular)
tomahawkom (dative plural)
tomahawk (accusative singular)
tomahawki (accusative plural)
tomahawkiem (instrumental singular)
tomahawkami (instrumental plural)
tomahawku (locative singular)
tomahawkach (locative plural)
tomahawku (singular vocative)
tomahawki (plural vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English tomahawk.

ubor

tomahawk (axe used by Native American warriors, originally made of stone, bone, or antler)


chu-ko-nu

/ˌtʃuːkəʊˈnuː/

From Mandarin 諸葛弩 /诸葛弩 (Zhūgě nǔ, literally “Zhuge crossbow”) via Wade–Giles.

bor

The chu-ko-nu, equipped with a magazine to hold bolts or, as in this case, pellets, was used in China well into the twentieth century (Needham et al. 1994: 157-64; Selby 2003: 62-63).

2007, C. E. Grayson, M. French, M. J. O'Brien, Traditional Archery from Six Continents, University of Missouri Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 24:

While traditional bows were all about placing carefully selected shots, the chu-ko-nu could rattle off about one shot every two seconds, raining down a shitstorm of indiscriminate crossbow fire that would scare the Fu Manchu right off the enemy.

2013, John O'Bryan, A History of Weapons, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 84:

Ejecting and replacing the magazine from her chu–ko–nu, she grimly fastened the ribbon holding the gruesome trophy to her belt.

2016, Felix Long, To Conquer Heaven, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 364:


dirk

Etymology unknown, apparently from Scots dirk.
First attested in 1602 as dork, in the later 17th century as durk. The spelling dirk is due to Johnson's Dictionary of 1755.
Early quotations as well as Johnson 1755 suggest that the word is of Scottish Gaelic origin, but no such Gaelic word is known. The Gaelic name for the weapon is biodag. Gaelic duirc is merely an 18th-century adoption of the English word.
A possible derivation is from the North Germanic/Scandinavian personal name Dirk (short for Diederik), which is used of lock-picking tools (but not of knives or daggers). Alternatively a corruption of Low German Dulk, Dolk (“dagger”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dulkaz, *dalkaz (“knife, dagger”), related to Saterland Frisian Dolk (“dagger”), West Frisian dolk (“dagger”), Dutch dolk (“dagger”), German Dolch (“dagger”).

unk

unknown

In half a minute he had reached the port scuppers, and picked, out of a coil of rope, a long knife, or rather a short dirk, discolored to the hilt with blood.

1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

In this kit was the ‘Officer of the Watch’ telescope from Dolland and Sons, presented to me by my godmother, Inman's Nautical Tables, a parallel ruler, and, of course, a dirk.

1996, Frank Twiss, Social Change in the Royal Navy, 1924–1970:

(nautical) A ceremonial dagger worn by naval or air force officers in some nations' militaries; formerly, a fighting dagger used by sailors as a boarding weapon.

dirk

a ceremonial dagger worn by naval officers; formerly, a boarding weapon used by sailors


kris

→ Serbo-Croatian: kris

Borrowed from Malay keris. Doublet of kalis. Recognized as part of English ca. 1580.

Anne Talbot looked demurely ravishing, as was her intention, in a very low-cut evening frock of bottle-green, choker of Kelantan silver, earrings in the shape of krises.

1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 292:

A traditional Indonesian, Malaysian, or Filipino sword or dagger having a tapering, usually serpentine blade.


javelin

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French javelline, diminutive of javelot, diminutive of *javel, from Vulgar Latin *gabalus, from Gaulish gabulum (compare Old Irish gabul (“fork”), Welsh gafl), from Proto-Celtic *gablā (“fork, forked branch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ-. The Old French term was also borrowed into Middle Low German as gaveline, and into Middle High German as gabilot. Cognate with gavelock, gaffle.

der

A metal-tipped spear thrown for distance in an athletic field event.


pilum

Borrowed from Latin pilum. Doublet of pile.

Besides a lighter spear, the Roman legionary grasped in his right hand the formidable pilum, a ponderous javelin whose utmost length was about six feet and which was terminated by a massy triangular point of steel of about eighteen inches.

1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Penguin 2000, page 21:

Verica plucked a pilum from the hands of the nearest legionary – the soldier didn't react – and handed it to me.

2011, Ben Aaronovitch, Rivers of London, Gollancz 2011, page 371:


pilum

la-noun

pīlum n (genitive pīlī); second declension

pīlum (canonical neuter)
pīlī (genitive)
pīlum (nominative singular)
pīla (nominative plural)
pīlī (genitive singular)
pīlōrum (genitive plural)
pīlō (dative singular)
pīlīs (dative plural)
pīlum (accusative singular)
pīla (accusative plural)
pīlō (ablative singular)
pīlīs (ablative plural)
pīlum (singular vocative)
pīla (plural vocative)

Italian: pilo, pillo

>? Romanian: pil

→ Dutch: pijl

→ English: pile

→ French: pile

→ German: Pfeil

→ Italian: pilo

→ Portuguese: pilo

→ Spanish: pilo

→ Swedish: pil

From Proto-Italic *pistlom, from Proto-Indo-European *pistlom, from *peys- (“to crush”). See pistillum, pīla, pīnsō.


식도

Sino-Korean word from 食刀, from 食 (“eat”) + 刀 (“knife”).


sax

sax (nominative singular)
saxit (nominative plural)
sax (accusative nominative singular)
saxit (accusative nominative plural)
saxin (accusative genitive singular)
saxit (accusative genitive plural)
saxin (genitive singular)
saxien (genitive plural)
saxia (partitive singular)
saxeja (partitive plural)
saxissa (inessive singular)
saxeissa (inessive plural)
saxista (elative singular)
saxeista (elative plural)
saxiin (illative singular)
saxeihin (illative plural)
saxilla (adessive singular)
saxeilla (adessive plural)
saxilta (ablative singular)
saxeilta (ablative plural)
saxille (allative singular)
saxeille (allative plural)
saxina (essive singular)
saxeina (essive plural)
saxiksi (singular translative)
saxeiksi (plural translative)
saxitta (abessive singular)
saxeitta (abessive plural)
saxein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
saxini (nominative singular)
saxini (nominative plural)
saxini (accusative nominative singular)
saxini (accusative nominative plural)
saxini (accusative genitive singular)
saxini (accusative genitive plural)
saxini (genitive singular)
saxieni (genitive plural)
saxiani (partitive singular)
saxejani (partitive plural)
saxissani (inessive singular)
saxeissani (inessive plural)
saxistani (elative singular)
saxeistani (elative plural)
saxiini (illative singular)
saxeihini (illative plural)
saxillani (adessive singular)
saxeillani (adessive plural)
saxiltani (ablative singular)
saxeiltani (ablative plural)
saxilleni (allative singular)
saxeilleni (allative plural)
saxinani (essive singular)
saxeinani (essive plural)
saxikseni (singular translative)
saxeikseni (plural translative)
saxittani (abessive singular)
saxeittani (abessive plural)
saxeineni (comitative plural)
saxisi (nominative singular)
saxisi (nominative plural)
saxisi (accusative nominative singular)
saxisi (accusative nominative plural)
saxisi (accusative genitive singular)
saxisi (accusative genitive plural)
saxisi (genitive singular)
saxiesi (genitive plural)
saxiasi (partitive singular)
saxejasi (partitive plural)
saxissasi (inessive singular)
saxeissasi (inessive plural)
saxistasi (elative singular)
saxeistasi (elative plural)
saxiisi (illative singular)
saxeihisi (illative plural)
saxillasi (adessive singular)
saxeillasi (adessive plural)
saxiltasi (ablative singular)
saxeiltasi (ablative plural)
saxillesi (allative singular)
saxeillesi (allative plural)
saxinasi (essive singular)
saxeinasi (essive plural)
saxiksesi (singular translative)
saxeiksesi (plural translative)
saxittasi (abessive singular)
saxeittasi (abessive plural)
saxeinesi (comitative plural)
saximme (nominative singular)
saximme (nominative plural)
saximme (accusative nominative singular)
saximme (accusative nominative plural)
saximme (accusative genitive singular)
saximme (accusative genitive plural)
saximme (genitive singular)
saxiemme (genitive plural)
saxiamme (partitive singular)
saxejamme (partitive plural)
saxissamme (inessive singular)
saxeissamme (inessive plural)
saxistamme (elative singular)
saxeistamme (elative plural)
saxiimme (illative singular)
saxeihimme (illative plural)
saxillamme (adessive singular)
saxeillamme (adessive plural)
saxiltamme (ablative singular)
saxeiltamme (ablative plural)
saxillemme (allative singular)
saxeillemme (allative plural)
saxinamme (essive singular)
saxeinamme (essive plural)
saxiksemme (singular translative)
saxeiksemme (plural translative)
saxittamme (abessive singular)
saxeittamme (abessive plural)
saxeinemme (comitative plural)
saxinne (nominative singular)
saxinne (nominative plural)
saxinne (accusative nominative singular)
saxinne (accusative nominative plural)
saxinne (accusative genitive singular)
saxinne (accusative genitive plural)
saxinne (genitive singular)
saxienne (genitive plural)
saxianne (partitive singular)
saxejanne (partitive plural)
saxissanne (inessive singular)
saxeissanne (inessive plural)
saxistanne (elative singular)
saxeistanne (elative plural)
saxiinne (illative singular)
saxeihinne (illative plural)
saxillanne (adessive singular)
saxeillanne (adessive plural)
saxiltanne (ablative singular)
saxeiltanne (ablative plural)
saxillenne (allative singular)
saxeillenne (allative plural)
saxinanne (essive singular)
saxeinanne (essive plural)
saxiksenne (singular translative)
saxeiksenne (plural translative)
saxittanne (abessive singular)
saxeittanne (abessive plural)
saxeinenne (comitative plural)
saxinsa (nominative singular)
saxinsa (nominative plural)
saxinsa (accusative nominative singular)
saxinsa (accusative nominative plural)
saxinsa (accusative genitive singular)
saxinsa (accusative genitive plural)
saxinsa (genitive singular)
saxiensa (genitive plural)
saxiaan (partitive singular)
saxiansa (partitive singular)
saxejaan (partitive plural)
saxejansa (partitive plural)
saxissaan (inessive singular)
saxissansa (inessive singular)
saxeissaan (inessive plural)
saxeissansa (inessive plural)
saxistaan (elative singular)
saxistansa (elative singular)
saxeistaan (elative plural)
saxeistansa (elative plural)
saxiinsa (illative singular)
saxeihinsa (illative plural)
saxillaan (adessive singular)
saxillansa (adessive singular)
saxeillaan (adessive plural)
saxeillansa (adessive plural)
saxiltaan (ablative singular)
saxiltansa (ablative singular)
saxeiltaan (ablative plural)
saxeiltansa (ablative plural)
saxilleen (allative singular)
saxillensa (allative singular)
saxeilleen (allative plural)
saxeillensa (allative plural)
saxinaan (essive singular)
saxinansa (essive singular)
saxeinaan (essive plural)
saxeinansa (essive plural)
saxikseen (singular translative)
saxiksensa (singular translative)
saxeikseen (plural translative)
saxeiksensa (plural translative)
saxittaan (abessive singular)
saxittansa (abessive singular)
saxeittaan (abessive plural)
saxeittansa (abessive plural)
saxeineen (comitative plural)
saxeinensa (comitative plural)

Learned borrowing from Old Norse sax. Doublet of saksa, Saksa, sakset, saksi (“claw”), saksi (“Saxon”), Saksi, and seax.


sax

English: sax; zax

Scots: saks; sax (verb) (through confluence with Norse form)

From Old English seax, from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą.


sax

sax (genitive)
sǫx (plural)
sax (indefinite nominative singular)
saxit (definite nominative singular)
sǫx (indefinite nominative plural)
sǫxin (definite nominative plural)
sax (accusative indefinite singular)
saxit (accusative definite singular)
sǫx (accusative indefinite plural)
sǫxin (accusative definite plural)
saxi (dative indefinite singular)
saxinu (dative definite singular)
sǫxum (dative indefinite plural)
sǫxunum (dative definite plural)
sax (genitive indefinite singular)
saxins (definite genitive singular)
saxa (genitive indefinite plural)
saxanna (definite genitive plural)

non-decl-blank-full

sax

Icelandic: sax n

Faroese: saksur m

Norwegian Nynorsk: saks f

Norwegian Bokmål: saks m or f

Swedish: sax c

Danish: saks c

From Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“dagger, knife”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).


salvo

A 1719 alteration of salva (“simultaneous discharge of guns”) (1591) from Latin salva (“salute, volley”) (compare French salve, also from Italian), from Latin salve (“hail”), the usual Roman greeting, imperative of salvere (“to be in good health”).

(military) A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.


salvo

head

salvo (definite accusative salvoyu, plural salvolar)

salvoyu (accusative definite)
salvolar (plural)
salvo (nominative singular)
salvolar (nominative plural)
salvoyu (accusative definite singular)
salvoları (accusative definite plural)
salvoya (dative singular)
salvolara (dative plural)
salvoda (locative singular)
salvolarda (locative plural)
salvodan (ablative singular)
salvolardan (ablative plural)
salvonun (genitive singular)
salvoların (genitive plural)
salvom (first-person nominative singular)
salvolarım (first-person nominative singular)
salvon (nominative second-person singular)
salvoların (nominative second-person singular)
salvosu (nominative singular third-person)
salvoları (nominative singular third-person)
salvomuz (first-person nominative plural)
salvolarımız (first-person nominative plural)
salvonuz (nominative plural second-person)
salvolarınız (nominative plural second-person)
salvoları (nominative plural third-person)
salvomu (accusative definite first-person singular)
salvolarımı (accusative definite first-person singular)
salvonu (accusative definite second-person singular)
salvolarını (accusative definite second-person singular)
salvosunu (accusative definite singular third-person)
salvolarını (accusative definite singular third-person)
salvomuzu (accusative definite first-person plural)
salvolarımızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
salvonuzu (accusative definite plural second-person)
salvolarınızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
salvolarını (accusative definite plural third-person)
salvoma (dative first-person singular)
salvolarıma (dative first-person singular)
salvona (dative second-person singular)
salvolarına (dative second-person singular)
salvosuna (dative singular third-person)
salvolarına (dative singular third-person)
salvomuza (dative first-person plural)
salvolarımıza (dative first-person plural)
salvonuza (dative plural second-person)
salvolarınıza (dative plural second-person)
salvolarına (dative plural third-person)
salvomda (first-person locative singular)
salvolarımda (first-person locative singular)
salvonda (locative second-person singular)
salvolarında (locative second-person singular)
salvosunda (locative singular third-person)
salvolarında (locative singular third-person)
salvomuzda (first-person locative plural)
salvolarımızda (first-person locative plural)
salvonuzda (locative plural second-person)
salvolarınızda (locative plural second-person)
salvolarında (locative plural third-person)
salvomdan (ablative first-person singular)
salvolarımdan (ablative first-person singular)
salvondan (ablative second-person singular)
salvolarından (ablative second-person singular)
salvosundan (ablative singular third-person)
salvolarından (ablative singular third-person)
salvomuzdan (ablative first-person plural)
salvolarımızdan (ablative first-person plural)
salvonuzdan (ablative plural second-person)
salvolarınızdan (ablative plural second-person)
salvolarından (ablative plural third-person)
salvomun (first-person genitive singular)
salvolarımın (first-person genitive singular)
salvonun (genitive second-person singular)
salvolarının (genitive second-person singular)
salvosunun (genitive singular third-person)
salvolarının (genitive singular third-person)
salvomuzun (first-person genitive plural)
salvolarımızın (first-person genitive plural)
salvonuzun (genitive plural second-person)
salvolarınızın (genitive plural second-person)
salvolarının (genitive plural third-person)

Borrowed from Italian salva. Doublet of her.

(military) A barrage of artillery fire, volley, salvo.


spud

From Middle English spudde (“small knife”). Origin unknown; probably related to Danish spyd, Old Norse spjót (“spear”), German Spieß (“spear; spike; skewer”). Compare English spit (“sharp, pointed rod”). The use of the term for a potato was perhaps first used in New Zealand and Australian dialect and slang.

As I turned out of the wood, I heard the shrill tone of infant wailing; and as I came towards the cottage, I saw a fine flaxen-headed urchin, some six or seven years old, stamping and beating himself with his clenched little spuds of fists, in a perfect ecstasy of passion […]

1844, Richard Sainthill, An Olla Podrida: Or, Scraps, Numismatic, Antiquarian, and Literary:

1728, Jonathan Swift, A Pastoral Dialogue, 1910, William Browning (editor), The Poems of Jonathan Swift, Volume 2, 2004, Gutenberg eBook #13621,
My love to Sheelah is more firmly fixt, / Than strongest weeds that grow these stones betwixt: / My spud these nettles from the stone can part; / No knife so keen to weed thee from my heart.

1885, Richard Jefferies, After London: or Wild England, 2004 [1905], Gutenberg eBook #13944,
Deprived of motion by the blow of the club, it can, on the other hand, be picked up without trouble and without the aid of a dog, and if not dead is despatched by a twist of the Bushman's fingers or a thrust from his spud. The spud is at once his dagger, his knife and fork, his chisel, his grub-axe, and his gouge. It is a piece of iron (rarely or never of steel, for he does not know how to harden it) about ten inches long, an inch and a half wide at the top or broadest end, where it is shaped and sharpened like a chisel, only with the edge not straight but sloping, and from thence tapering to a point at the other, the pointed part being four-sided, like a nail.

"I rigged up a contraption to hold off those stinking beasts, and I spent a happy day there with a spud."

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

A most respectable old Johnnie, don't you know. Doesn't do a thing nowadays but dig in the garden with a spud.

1925, P. G. Wodehouse, “Jeeves Takes Charge”, in Carry On, Jeeves, Arrow Books, published 2008, page 19:

A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.

малка мотика

spade-like tool used for digging out weeds


spud

en-verb

spud (third-person singular simple present spuds, present participle spudding, simple past and past participle spudded)

spuds (present singular third-person)
spudding (participle present)
spudded (participle past)
spudded (past)

A rope called the jerk line is attached to the wrist pin of the band-wheel crank, brought inside the derrick, and attached to the part of the drilling cable which extends from the crown pulley to the bull-wheel shaft by a curved metal slide called a spudding shoe. (See fig. 8.)

1911, Isaiah Bowman, United States Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 257: Well-Drilling Methods, page 46:

When a well is spudded, the drilling assembly is loosely tied to the guide wires with 1/2″ manila rope.

1999, Steve Devereux, Drilling for Oil & Gas: A Nontechnical Guide, page 86:

Spudding is the process of lifting and dropping the pile constantly until the obstruction is broken into pieces. Obviously, spudding cannot be done with lighter piles (timber or pipe piles). Concrete piles and steel H-piles are good candidates for spudding.

2008, Ruwan Rajapakse, Pile Design and Construction Rules of Thumb, page 367:

Prepayments of drilling expenses are deductible by tax-shelter investors only if the well is “spudded” within 90 days after the close of the taxable year in which the prepayment was made, and the deduction is limited to the original amount of the investment.

2008, J. K. Lasser, J.K. Lasser′s Your Income Tax: 2009, Professional, Edition, page 238:

(drilling) To begin drilling an oil well; to drill by moving the drill bit and shaft up and down, or by raising and dropping a bit.


spud

A game for three or more players, involving the gradual elimination of players by throwing and catching a ball.


baton

(weaponry, US) A short stout club used primarily by policemen.


baton

pl-noun

baton m animal or m inan (diminutive batonik)

baton m animal or (canonical inanimate masculine)
batonik (diminutive)
baton (nominative singular)
batony (nominative plural)
batona (genitive singular)
batonu (genitive singular)
batonów (genitive plural)
batonowi (dative singular)
batonom (dative plural)
baton (accusative singular)
batona (accusative singular)
batony (accusative plural)
batonem (instrumental singular)
batonami (instrumental plural)
batonie (locative singular)
batonach (locative plural)
batonie (singular vocative)
batony (plural vocative)

(regional) veka (type of pastry made of wheat flour, produced in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland, similar to a French baguette but wider, bigger, and fluffier, and with a smoother surface)


chive

en-verb

chive (third-person singular simple present chives, present participle chiving, simple past and past participle chived)

chives (present singular third-person)
chiving (participle present)
chived (participle past)
chived (past)

From Romani chive, chiv, chivvomengro (“knife, dagger, blade”).

Adieu to Haul-Cly, adieu to stopping Coaches, and adieu to all the hurry-scurry of Foot-Scampering, filing, chiving, milling, and sneaking[…]

1728, James Dalton, A Genuine Narrative of all the Street Robberies committed since October last, by James Dalton and his Accomplices, page 59:

He was as good a man as Jacky at any weapon that could be named, and if Jacky were game for a chiving (stabbing) match, he (Kavanagh) was ready for him.

After the place got well where I was chived, me and another screwed a place at Stoke Newington

1879 October, Rev. John William Horsley, “Autobiography of a Thief”, in Macmillan's Magazine, volume 40, page 503:


cosh

A weapon made of leather-covered metal similar to a blackjack.

A blunt instrument such as a bludgeon or truncheon.


cosh

en-adj

cosh (comparative more cosh, superlative most cosh)

more cosh (comparative)
most cosh (superlative)


dint

English: dent, dint, dunt

Scots: dunt, dont, dynt, dint, dent

From Old English dynt, from Proto-West Germanic *dunti, from Proto-Germanic *duntiz.

(by extension) Warfare, battle; the use of weaponry.


drib

en-verb

drib (third-person singular simple present dribs, present participle dribbing, simple past and past participle dribbed)

dribs (present singular third-person)
dribbing (participle present)
dribbed (participle past)
dribbed (past)

From dialectal English drib (compare also drub), a variant from Middle English drepen (“to hit, strike, slay”), from Old English drepan (“to strike, kill, overcome”), from Proto-Germanic *drepaną (“to hit, strike”).

inh

(transitive, archery) To shoot directly at short range.

(intransitive, archery) To shoot at a mark at short range.

Not at first sight, nor with a dribbèd shot, / Love gave the wound […]

c. 1580s, Philip Sidney, “Astrophel and Stella”, in [Mary Sidney], editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia […] [The New Arcadia], 3rd edition, London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1598, →OCLC, sonnet 2, page 519:

(transitive, archery) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.


fletch

A modification of fledge (“to acquire feathers”) due to the influence of fletcher (“arrow-maker”). Compare flèche.

(archery) The vane toward the back of an arrow, used to stabilise the arrow during flight.


mire

Borrowed from Italian mira, from Latin mīrō (“to wonder at”).

(weaponry) aim (action of aiming) [from 1562]


sago

eo-head

sago (accusative singular sagon, plural sagoj, accusative plural sagojn)

sagon (accusative singular)
sagoj (plural)
sagojn (accusative plural)

From Latin sagitta. Doublet of Sagitario.


saker

From Middle English sacre, from Middle French sacre, from Old Spanish sacro, from Arabic صَقْر (ṣaqr).

Falco cherrug
Falco cherrug#Translingual

A falcon (Falco cherrug) native of Southern Europe and Asia.


shiv

en-verb

shiv (third-person singular simple present shivs, present participle shivving or shiving, simple past and past participle shivved or shived)

shivs (present singular third-person)
shivving (participle present)
shiving (participle present)
shivved (participle past)
shivved (past)
shived (participle past)
shived (past)

First attested 1915. From chive, chieve, chife, chiv (“knife”), from Romani chive, chiv, chivvomengro (“knife, dagger, blade”).

(transitive, by extension) To stab (someone) with anything not normally used as a stabbing weapon.


shunt

From Middle English shunten, schunten, schonten, schounten, shont, shonte, shount, shounten, shunte (“to move rapidly or suddenly, jerk; to swerve, turn away; to avoid, dodge, escape, evade”), either:
* possibly a back-formation from Middle English shǒnen (“to decline to do, refuse; to abandon, forsake; to disdain, dislike, hate; to avoid, escape; to be afraid, fear; to be wary of”), from Old English sċunian, sċyniġan; see shun. Or
* an alteration of Middle English shunden, *schunden, *schinden, from Old English sċyndan, sċendan (“to hasten, hurry”) (as in āsċyndan (“to remove, take away”), from Proto-West Germanic *skundijan, from Proto-Germanic *skundijaną (“to compel, drive, push; to accelerate, rush, speed up”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kew(n)t- (“to rattle, shake”).
* from unrecorded Old English *sċunettan, a derivative of sċunian (“to shun, avoid”).
The English word is cognate with Danish skynde (“to hasten, hurry, speed”), Icelandic skynda, skunda (“to hasten”), Middle High German schünden (“to compel; to urge; to irritate”), Norwegian skynde (“to hurry, rush”), Swedish skynda (“to hasten, hurry; to scuttle, scurry”). Outside Germanic, compare Sanskrit स्कन्दति (skándati, “to dart, leap, spring, spurt or burst forth, ejaculate, assail, drop, split”), Albanian shkund (“to shake; to swig”).
As regards the noun sense, compare Middle English shunt (“swerve; sudden jerk”), derived from the verb.

cog

In length, this gun was the same as the French, but weighed 9 cwt. less. It was rifled in six grooves on the shunt plan, in the form in which it has been generally applied to large guns, with the difference that some of the angles of the grooving were rounded off. […] To impede fouling, a slightly greater windage was allowed in the chamber of the shunt gun, the diameter there being 0.04 greater than at the mouth of the bore.

1865 October, “Rifled Guns and Missiles”, in Colburn’s United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal, part III, number CCCCXLIII, London: Hurst and Blackett, publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 170:

The shunt system, of which the 64-pr. is the only example now in the service, has been considered inferior to the Woolwich, because besides being unnecessarily complicated, the grooves which are cut with abrupt sharp angles weaken the gun. […] [I]n the shunt gun, however, in addition to the mere fact of the driving side of the double groove being shallow, and the loading side deep, the two grooves join in one deep one at 2 feet 7.5 inches from the muzzle, […]

1870, Charles Orde Browne, “Section II. Muzzle-loading Armstrong, Shunt System.”, in Ammunition. A Descriptive Treatise on the Different Projectiles, Charges, Fuzes, &c., at Present in Use for Land and Sea Service, and on Other War Stores Manufactured in the Royal Laboratory, part II (Ammunition for Rifled Ordnance), London: Printed under the superintendence of Her Majesty's Stationery Office by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, […], →OCLC, page 108:

(firearms) The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun.


skeet

Unknown. Compare Icelandic skeið (“spoon”), from Old Norse skeið (“a sheath”). Attested from the 15th century; see quotation below.

The best method for wetting the after sails is with a garden syringe or small engine[…] For the head sails a skeet made of tough ash, having a good long handle ; the head or skeeting part curves scimitar fashion, to be about three and a half feet in length, and scooped out an inch and a half in width by two and a half inches in depth

1862, Vanderdecken [William Cooper], The Yacht Sailor, page 131:

(nautical) A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel and formerly to wet the sails or deck.


ballista

en-noun

ballista (plural ballistas or ballistae or ballistæ)

ballistas (plural)
ballistae (plural)
ballistæ (plural)

Borrowed from Latin ballista, from Ancient Greek βαλλίστρα (ballístra), from βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”).

(weaponry, historical) An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles.

عَرَّادَة

crossbow-like military engine for hurling large missiles


ballista

ballista (nominative singular)
ballistat (nominative plural)
ballista (accusative nominative singular)
ballistat (accusative nominative plural)
ballistan (accusative genitive singular)
ballistat (accusative genitive plural)
ballistan (genitive singular)
ballistojen (genitive plural)
ballistain (genitive plural rare)
ballistaa (partitive singular)
ballistoja (partitive plural)
ballistassa (inessive singular)
ballistoissa (inessive plural)
ballistasta (elative singular)
ballistoista (elative plural)
ballistaan (illative singular)
ballistoihin (illative plural)
ballistalla (adessive singular)
ballistoilla (adessive plural)
ballistalta (ablative singular)
ballistoilta (ablative plural)
ballistalle (allative singular)
ballistoille (allative plural)
ballistana (essive singular)
ballistoina (essive plural)
ballistaksi (singular translative)
ballistoiksi (plural translative)
ballistatta (abessive singular)
ballistoitta (abessive plural)
ballistoin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
ballistani (nominative singular)
ballistani (nominative plural)
ballistani (accusative nominative singular)
ballistani (accusative nominative plural)
ballistani (accusative genitive singular)
ballistani (accusative genitive plural)
ballistani (genitive singular)
ballistojeni (genitive plural)
ballistaini (genitive plural rare)
ballistaani (partitive singular)
ballistojani (partitive plural)
ballistassani (inessive singular)
ballistoissani (inessive plural)
ballistastani (elative singular)
ballistoistani (elative plural)
ballistaani (illative singular)
ballistoihini (illative plural)
ballistallani (adessive singular)
ballistoillani (adessive plural)
ballistaltani (ablative singular)
ballistoiltani (ablative plural)
ballistalleni (allative singular)
ballistoilleni (allative plural)
ballistanani (essive singular)
ballistoinani (essive plural)
ballistakseni (singular translative)
ballistoikseni (plural translative)
ballistattani (abessive singular)
ballistoittani (abessive plural)
ballistoineni (comitative plural)
ballistasi (nominative singular)
ballistasi (nominative plural)
ballistasi (accusative nominative singular)
ballistasi (accusative nominative plural)
ballistasi (accusative genitive singular)
ballistasi (accusative genitive plural)
ballistasi (genitive singular)
ballistojesi (genitive plural)
ballistaisi (genitive plural rare)
ballistaasi (partitive singular)
ballistojasi (partitive plural)
ballistassasi (inessive singular)
ballistoissasi (inessive plural)
ballistastasi (elative singular)
ballistoistasi (elative plural)
ballistaasi (illative singular)
ballistoihisi (illative plural)
ballistallasi (adessive singular)
ballistoillasi (adessive plural)
ballistaltasi (ablative singular)
ballistoiltasi (ablative plural)
ballistallesi (allative singular)
ballistoillesi (allative plural)
ballistanasi (essive singular)
ballistoinasi (essive plural)
ballistaksesi (singular translative)
ballistoiksesi (plural translative)
ballistattasi (abessive singular)
ballistoittasi (abessive plural)
ballistoinesi (comitative plural)
ballistamme (nominative singular)
ballistamme (nominative plural)
ballistamme (accusative nominative singular)
ballistamme (accusative nominative plural)
ballistamme (accusative genitive singular)
ballistamme (accusative genitive plural)
ballistamme (genitive singular)
ballistojemme (genitive plural)
ballistaimme (genitive plural rare)
ballistaamme (partitive singular)
ballistojamme (partitive plural)
ballistassamme (inessive singular)
ballistoissamme (inessive plural)
ballistastamme (elative singular)
ballistoistamme (elative plural)
ballistaamme (illative singular)
ballistoihimme (illative plural)
ballistallamme (adessive singular)
ballistoillamme (adessive plural)
ballistaltamme (ablative singular)
ballistoiltamme (ablative plural)
ballistallemme (allative singular)
ballistoillemme (allative plural)
ballistanamme (essive singular)
ballistoinamme (essive plural)
ballistaksemme (singular translative)
ballistoiksemme (plural translative)
ballistattamme (abessive singular)
ballistoittamme (abessive plural)
ballistoinemme (comitative plural)
ballistanne (nominative singular)
ballistanne (nominative plural)
ballistanne (accusative nominative singular)
ballistanne (accusative nominative plural)
ballistanne (accusative genitive singular)
ballistanne (accusative genitive plural)
ballistanne (genitive singular)
ballistojenne (genitive plural)
ballistainne (genitive plural rare)
ballistaanne (partitive singular)
ballistojanne (partitive plural)
ballistassanne (inessive singular)
ballistoissanne (inessive plural)
ballistastanne (elative singular)
ballistoistanne (elative plural)
ballistaanne (illative singular)
ballistoihinne (illative plural)
ballistallanne (adessive singular)
ballistoillanne (adessive plural)
ballistaltanne (ablative singular)
ballistoiltanne (ablative plural)
ballistallenne (allative singular)
ballistoillenne (allative plural)
ballistananne (essive singular)
ballistoinanne (essive plural)
ballistaksenne (singular translative)
ballistoiksenne (plural translative)
ballistattanne (abessive singular)
ballistoittanne (abessive plural)
ballistoinenne (comitative plural)
ballistansa (nominative singular)
ballistansa (nominative plural)
ballistansa (accusative nominative singular)
ballistansa (accusative nominative plural)
ballistansa (accusative genitive singular)
ballistansa (accusative genitive plural)
ballistansa (genitive singular)
ballistojensa (genitive plural)
ballistainsa (genitive plural rare)
ballistaansa (partitive singular)
ballistojaan (partitive plural)
ballistojansa (partitive plural)
ballistassaan (inessive singular)
ballistassansa (inessive singular)
ballistoissaan (inessive plural)
ballistoissansa (inessive plural)
ballistastaan (elative singular)
ballistastansa (elative singular)
ballistoistaan (elative plural)
ballistoistansa (elative plural)
ballistaansa (illative singular)
ballistoihinsa (illative plural)
ballistallaan (adessive singular)
ballistallansa (adessive singular)
ballistoillaan (adessive plural)
ballistoillansa (adessive plural)
ballistaltaan (ablative singular)
ballistaltansa (ablative singular)
ballistoiltaan (ablative plural)
ballistoiltansa (ablative plural)
ballistalleen (allative singular)
ballistallensa (allative singular)
ballistoilleen (allative plural)
ballistoillensa (allative plural)
ballistanaan (essive singular)
ballistanansa (essive singular)
ballistoinaan (essive plural)
ballistoinansa (essive plural)
ballistakseen (singular translative)
ballistaksensa (singular translative)
ballistoikseen (plural translative)
ballistoiksensa (plural translative)
ballistattaan (abessive singular)
ballistattansa (abessive singular)
ballistoittaan (abessive plural)
ballistoittansa (abessive plural)
ballistoineen (comitative plural)
ballistoinensa (comitative plural)

[ˈbɑ̝lːis̠tɑ̝]


ballista

la-noun

ballista f (genitive ballistae); first declension

ballistae (genitive)
ballista (nominative singular)
ballistae (nominative plural)
ballistae (genitive singular)
ballistārum (genitive plural)
ballistae (dative singular)
ballistīs (dative plural)
ballistam (accusative singular)
ballistās (accusative plural)
ballistā (ablative singular)
ballistīs (ablative plural)
ballista (singular vocative)
ballistae (plural vocative)

Asturian: ballesta

Catalan: ballesta

→ Czech: balista

→ English: ballista

→ Finnish: ballista

French: baliste

Galician: bestra

⇒ Galician: balistrón, balastrón

Italian: balista, balestra

→ Portuguese: balestra

desctree

Old Galician-Portuguese: baesta
Galician: bésta f
Portuguese: besta f

Old Spanish: ballesta

Spanish: ballesta

Sicilian: balistra, balestra

→ Polish: balista

→ Portuguese: balista

→ Romanian: balistă

→ Russian: балли́ста (ballísta)

→ Spanish: balista

→ Swedish: ballista

[bälˈlʲɪs̠t̪ä]

From Ancient Greek βαλλίστρα (ballístra), from βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”).


breech

en-noun

breech (countable and uncountable, plural breeches)

From Middle English breche, from Old English brēċ, from Proto-Germanic *brōkiz pl, from Proto-Germanic *brōks (“clothing for loins and thighs”). Cognate with Dutch broek, Alemannic German Bruech, Swedish brok. Doublet of vraka.

der

Coordinate term: muzzle

(firearms) The part of a cannon or other firearm behind the chamber.


gauge

en-noun

gauge (countable and uncountable, plural gauges)

From Middle English gauge, gaugen, from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French gauger (compare Modern French jauger from Old French jaugier), from gauge (“gauging rod”), from Frankish *galga (“measuring rod, pole”), from Proto-Germanic *galgô (“pole, stake, cross”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰalgʰ-, *ǵʰalg- (“perch, long switch”). Cognate with Old High German galgo, Old Frisian galga, Old English ġealga (“cross-beam, gallows”), Old Norse galgi (“cross-beam, gallows”), Old Norse gelgja (“pole, perch”). Doublet of gallows.

cog

(firearms) A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be had from one pound of lead; 12 gauge is roughly equivalent to .75 caliber.


glans

la-noun

glāns f (genitive glandis); third declension

glāns (canonical feminine)
glandis (genitive)
glāns (nominative singular)
glandēs (nominative plural)
glandis (genitive singular)
glandum (genitive plural)
glandī (dative singular)
glandibus (dative plural)
glandem (accusative singular)
glandēs (accusative plural)
glande (ablative singular)
glandibus (ablative plural)
glāns (singular vocative)
glandēs (plural vocative)

Balkan Romance:

Aromanian: gljindã

Romanian: ghindă

Italo-Romance:

Italian: ghianda, ajjanna (Reati)

Sicilian: ghianna

Calabrian: aghianda

Padanian:

Friulian: gland, glant

Ladin: gian

Piedmontese: giand, agian, gianda

desc

Romansch: glogn, glonda, galonda, glanda

Northern Gallo-Romance:

Franco-Provençal: glland, agllan, allan, llan

Valdôtain: llande, llan

Old French: glant, glande

French: gland, glande

Southern Gallo-Romance:

Aragonese: glan

Belsetán: lan

Ribagorçan: llan

Old Catalan: glan, aglan

Catalan: gla, aglá

Old Occitan: glan, aglan

Occitan: agland (silent ⟨d⟩)

Gascon: gland

Vivaro-Alpine: gland, alhand

Ibero-Romance:

Asturian: llande

Portuguese: lande

Spanish: lande (Álava), llande (regional?)

Insular Romance:

Sardinian:

Campidanese: landi

Logudorese: lande, landa

Nuorese: grande, lande, lanne

Vulgar Latin: glandinis

Neapolitan: ghialne (Andria)

Piedmontese: giandr

Sardinian: landiri (Campidanese)

Spanish: landre

Borrowings:

→ Catalan: gland

→ English: gland, glans

→ French: glande

→ Galician: glande

→ Italian: glande

→ Portuguese: glande

→ Romanian: gland

→ Russian: гла́нды (glándy)

→ Spanish: glande

From Proto-Italic *glānts, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelh₂- (“acorn”).

(weaponry) an acorn-shaped ball of lead or clay, hurled at the enemy

(transferred sense)
(New Latin, firearms) a bullet


core

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

Rossiter W[orthington] Raymond
w:Rossiter W. Raymond

A miner's underground working time or shift.


hake

From Middle English hake, probably a shortened form (due to North Germanic influence) of English dialectal haked (“pike”). Compare Norwegian hakefisk (“trout, salmon”), Middle Low German haken (“kipper”). More at haked.

Hake is an expensive fish—and is also very vulnerable to damage by mis-handling.

1964 October, P. Baxter, “Fleetwood is sceptical of BR's fish train plan”, in Modern Railways, page 255:

Off the United States, the National Marine Fisheries Service is helping industry explore fisheries for deep shrimp, rattails, chimeras, orange roughy, smoothheads, slackjaw eels, blue hake, skates and dogfish, which the National Fisheries Institute, an industry group, in an effort to improve their marketability, has renamed cape shark.

1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times:

One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merluccius, and allies.


lame

→ Catalan: llama

→ Italian: lama

→ Persian: لام (lâm, “microscope slide”)

Inherited from Latin lāmina, through the accusative lāminam. Doublet of lamine, a borrowing.


partisan

From French partizaine, from Middle French partizaine, partisanne etc., from Italian partigiana, related to Etymology 1 above (apparently because it was seen as a typical weapon of such forces).

I had as lief have a reed that will do me no service as a partisan I could not heave.

c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:

Salisbury and his attendants were also now drawing near, with bills and partisans brandished, and bows already bended.

(historical) A long-handled spear with a triangular, double-edged blade having lateral projections, in some forms also used in boar hunting.


scythe

From Middle English sythe, sithe, from Old English sīþe, sīgþe, sigdi (“sickle”), from Proto-West Germanic *sigiþi, from Proto-Germanic *sigiþiz, *sigiþō, derived from *seg- (“saw”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).
Immediate Germanic cognates include Middle Low German sēgede, Dutch zicht, Icelandic sigð (all “sickle”). More distantly related with Dutch zeis, German Sense (both “scythe”). Also akin to English saw, which see.
The silent c crept in during the early 15th century owing to pseudoetymological association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor, carver”), from Latin scindere (“to cut, rend, split”).
The verb, which was first used in the intransitive sense, is from the noun.

noncog

(historical) A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.


secondary

From Middle English secundarie, from Latin secundārius (“of the second class or quality”), from secundus (whence the English second) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary), equivalent to second + -ary; compare the French secondaire, the Italian secondario, the Occitan secundari, the Portuguese secundario, and the Spanish secundario.

der

English numerals#Ordinal numbers
secondary

(ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.

thermonuclear weapon
thermonuclear weapon

(military) The second stage of a multistage thermonuclear weapon, which generates a fusion explosion when imploded as an indirect result of the fission explosion of the primary, and which, in a few extremely large weapons, itself implodes a fusion tertiary.

secondary colour
secondary colour#English


shell

From Middle English schelle, from Old English sċiell, from Proto-West Germanic *skallju, from Proto-Germanic *skaljō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cleave”).
Compare West Frisian skyl (“peel, rind”), Dutch schil (“peel, skin, rink”), Low German Schell (“shell, scale”), Irish scelec (“pebble”), Latin silex (“pebble, flint”), siliqua (“pod”), Old Church Slavonic сколика (skolika, “shell”). More at shale.
Doublet of sheal.
* (computing): From being viewed as an outer layer of interface between the user and the operating-system internals.

cog

(weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.

(weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.

արկ

hollow usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a mortar or a cannon

(weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.


shell

en-verb

shell (third-person singular simple present shells, present participle shelling, simple past and past participle shelled)

shells (present singular third-person)
shelling (participle present)
shelled (participle past)
shelled (past)

The guns shelled the enemy trenches.

There wasn’t even a shed there, and she was shelling the bush.

1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 203:

To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.


tang

From Middle English tange, variant of tonge (“tongs, fang”), from Old Norse tangi (“pointed metal tool”), perhaps related to Old Norse tunga (“tongue”). But see also Middle Dutch tanger (“sharp, tart, pinching”).

ruoti

projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to some other part

angel

part of small instrument inserted into handle

The rifle carried a vernier sight on the tang[…]

1985, Cormac McCarthy, chapter IV, in Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC:

A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.

(firearms) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.


toxotes

From Ancient Greek τοξότης (toxótēs, “bowman, archer”).

uder

(historical) A Greek archer armed with a short Greek bow and a short sword.


tweak

en-verb

tweak (third-person singular simple present tweaks, present participle tweaking, simple past and past participle tweaked)

tweaks (present singular third-person)
tweaking (participle present)
tweaked (participle past)
tweaked (past)

From Middle English twikken, from Old English twiccian (“to pluck”), from Proto-West Germanic *twekkōn (“to fasten; clamp; pinch”). Related to twitch. The drug-related sense may be a blend of twitch and freak.

inh

(military, weaponry, uncommon) From a catapult, to strike a target with a missile.


funda

la-noun

funda f (genitive fundae); first declension

fundae (genitive)
funda (nominative singular)
fundae (nominative plural)
fundae (genitive singular)
fundārum (genitive plural)
fundae (dative singular)
fundīs (dative plural)
fundam (accusative singular)
fundās (accusative plural)
fundā (ablative singular)
fundīs (ablative plural)
funda (singular vocative)
fundae (plural vocative)

Catalan: fona, → funda

West Iberian

Old Galician-Portuguese:

Galician: fonda, funda

Portuguese: funda

Spanish: honda

→ Koine Greek: φοῦνδα (phoûnda)

→ Greek: φούντα (foúnta, “tuft”)

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰondʰeh₂, from *bʰendʰ- (“to bind”), whence English bind. Alternatively, a loanword from an unknown language, which may also have been the source of Ancient Greek σφενδόνη (sphendónē, “sling”).

cog

a hand-sling (contrasted with fustibalus (“a sling-staff”, “a stick sling”))

fionda

⇒ Vulgar Latin: *flunda (metathesis); Italian

ciunna

⇒ Vulgar Latin: *flunda (metathesis); Sicilian


funda

Bible, 1 Samuel 17:50

So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.

Portanto, Davi, com uma funda e uma pedra, mostrou ser mais forte que o filisteu, e o entregou à morte, e não havia espada na mão de Davi.


bombshell

en:grenade, mortar shell, or artillery shell, historically

(historical) Any grenade, mortar shell, or artillery shell (hollow metal object) containing a charge that can explode.

бо́мба

a bomb or artillery shell designed to explode on impact


arrowhead

From Middle English arewehede, arowhede, arowheved; equivalent to arrow + head.


singe

singe class IX (canonical)
singe class X (plural)


Feuer

de-noun

Feuer n (strong, genitive Feuers, plural Feuer, diminutive Feuerchen n or Feuerlein n)

Feuers (genitive)
Feuer (plural)
Feuerchen (diminutive neuter)
Feuerlein (diminutive neuter)
Feuer (nominative singular)
Feuer (definite nominative plural)
Feuers (genitive singular)
Feuer (definite genitive plural)
Feuer (dative singular)
Feuern (dative definite plural)
Feuer (accusative singular)
Feuer (accusative definite plural)

From Old High German fiur, from Proto-West Germanic *fuir, from Proto-Germanic *fōr, from Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥. Compare Dutch vuur, Low German Füer, West Frisian fjoer, English fire, Danish fyr.


clip

(firearms) clip (frame containing a number of bullets)


pil

head

pil c (singular definite pilen, plural indefinite pile)

pilen (definite singular)
pile (indefinite plural)
pil (indefinite nominative singular)
pilen (definite nominative singular)
pile (indefinite nominative plural)
pilene (definite nominative plural)
pils (genitive indefinite singular)
pilens (definite genitive singular)
piles (genitive indefinite plural)
pilenes (definite genitive plural)


pil

pila (definite singular)
pilen (definite singular)
piler (indefinite plural)
pilene (definite plural)


pil

English: pile


pil

sv:pil (figur)
sv:pil (projektil)
sv:pil (träd)

kasta pil (singular is idiomatic in "kasta pil")

kasta pil på en karta


Star Wars

[ˈstɑɹ ˈwɔɹz]

[ˈstɑ˞ ˈwɔɹz]

From the original name of the science fantasy motion picture Star Wars (1977).

Strategic Defense Initiative
Strategic Defense Initiative

(informal, military) The United States Strategic Defense Initiative.


PTA

en-noun

PTA (countable and uncountable, plural PTAs)

Their computer cannot issue a Permit to Acquire to somebody who does not have the appropriate category of licence; or whose licence is about to expire. I am hearing from lots of people who want to know why it's taking weeks, or even months, for the PTA to be issued, when the waiting period is supposed to be only 28 days. The reason is, of course, that the massive backlog of five-year licence renewals, caused by the under-resourcing of the Registry, is holding up PTA′s because they can't be issued until after the licence renewal is issued.

2003 October 21, CD, “NEWSLETTER FROM THE OFFICE OF JOHN TINGLE MLC 15.10.03”, in aus.politics.guns (Usenet):

I think that is the most meaningless sections of the law out of the whole thing, PTA for second and subsequent arms. They are likely processing hundreds of thousands of PTA′s weekly for absolutely no demonstratable purpose with tax payer monies.

2004 January 28, Seb, “NEWSLETTER FROM NSW SHOOTERS PARTY January 27 2004”, in aus.politics.guns (Usenet):

get your PTA, and then think about spending a few hundred on a more modern .22 and a scope.

2004 June 18, Lindsay, “Yaaaay. PTA in less than a month”, in aus.sport.shooting (Usenet):

Recently, people applying for a Permit to Acquire have received a letter back from the Firearms Registry saying they had to submit a Certificate of Inspection of their secure storage, before the application could be processed. This was a new thing, and, in the case of people who already have a firearm, was pretty pointless, since we all had our secure storage inspected in that great state-wide sweep; and unless the applicant's address had changed, there was little point in a new inspection. In any case, I had countless reports of people asking their local police to do a new inspection to go with the PTA and being told the police were much too busy to do all that again.

2006 February 22, CD, “NSW Shooters party Newsletter Feb 21 2006”, in aus.politics.guns (Usenet):

(Australia, firearms) Initialism of permit to acquire: a form lodged with the police to acquire a specific firearm; the authorisation subsequently acquired.


WMD

weapon of mass destruction
weapon of mass destruction#English

Initialism of weapon of mass destruction.

ADM

initialism — see also weapon of mass destruction


explosive

en-adj

explosive (comparative more explosive, superlative most explosive)

more explosive (comparative)
most explosive (superlative)

From Latin explōs-, stem of the perfect passive participle of explōdō + the suffix -ive.

Notes: A rule set that (very probably) results in explosive growth; certainly in area if not population.

1992 June 2, Dave Boll, “Variations on Conway's LIFE”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):

For example, putting a 1 at (0: 1,1) will cause explosive growth in all directions, putting a 1 at (0: 0,2A) will cause pairs of diagonal cells in a 2x2 square to alternate on and off, putting a 1 at (1: 4,4) will cause all solid 1 areas to stay 1 for another cycle, etc.

1994 April 4, Robert Andreen, “CA rules”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):

If the rule is further chosen so that active cells can (and must) expand on an inactive background but inactive cells can't do so on an active background (or vice versa), then non-explosive growth becomes possible.

2003 May 12, Ilmari Karonen, “Gliders in 4-neighbor semitotalistic 2D cellular automata”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):

en:like an explosion, e.g., of a fast fire

(cellular automata) Of a specific cellular automaton rule, tending to exhibit infinite and unpredictable growth when starting from finite random patterns.

the explosive consonants


explosive

The words of these songs were either without meaning, or derived from an idiom with which Watt, a very fair linguist, had no acquaintance. The open a sound was predominant, and the explosives k and g.

1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC: