sleet

en-noun

sleet (countable and uncountable, plural sleets)

From Middle English slete, probably from Old English *slēte, *slȳte, *slīete, from Proto-West Germanic *slautijā, from Proto-Germanic *slautijǭ (“sleet”). Walter W. Skeat, the author of Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, suggests Old Norse slydda (whence Danish slud (“mixture of rain and snow”)). The word appears to be akin to Low German Sloot (“hail”), dialectal German Schloße (“large hailstone”), Old Gutnish sloyta (“slush, sleet”). Doublet of slut.

cog

(firearms) The part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.


valaška

sk-noun

valaška f (genitive singular valašky, nominative plural valašky, genitive plural valašiek, declension pattern of žena)

valašky (genitive singular)
valašky (nominative plural)
valašiek (genitive plural)
žena (declension-pattern-of)
valaška (nominative singular)
valašky (nominative plural)
valašky (genitive singular)
valašiek (genitive plural)
valaške (dative singular)
valaškám (dative plural)
valašku (accusative singular)
valašky (accusative plural)
valaške (locative singular)
valaškách (locative plural)
valaškou (instrumental singular)
valaškami (instrumental plural)


sock

en-noun

sock (plural socks or (informal, nonstandard) sox)

socks (plural)
sox (informal nonstandard plural)

desctree

→ French: socquette
→ Portuguese: soquete

Japanese: ソックス (sokkusu) < socks

Swahili: soksi < socks (plural)

From Middle English socke, sokke, sok, from Old English socc (“sock, light shoe, slipper”), a West Germanic borrowing from Latin soccus (“a light shoe or slipper, buskin”), from Ancient Greek σύκχος (súkkhos, “a kind of shoe”), probably from Phrygian or from an Anatolian language. Beekes compares Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬑𐬀 (haxa, “sole of the foot”). Cognate with Scots sok (“sock, stocking”), West Frisian sok (“sock”), Dutch sok (“sock”), German Socke (“sock”), Danish sok, sokke (“sock”), Swedish sock, socka (“sock”), Icelandic sokkur (“sock”). Doublet of zocco; also related to zoccolo, socle, and zocalo.

der

(firearms, informal) Ellipsis of gun sock.


atomic

partially ordered set
partially ordered set

(order theory, of a partially ordered set with a least element 0) Such that for every element b>0 there exists an atom a such that b≥a>0.


express

From French exprès, from Latin expressus, past participle of exprimere (see Etymology 2, below).

"Give me my express," I said, laying down the Winchester, and he handed it to me cocked.

1885, H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines:


bue

head

bue c (singular definite buen, plural indefinite buer)

buen (definite singular)
buer (indefinite plural)
bue (indefinite nominative singular)
buen (definite nominative singular)
buer (indefinite nominative plural)
buerne (definite nominative plural)
bues (genitive indefinite singular)
buens (definite genitive singular)
buers (genitive indefinite plural)
buernes (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse bogi, from Proto-Germanic *bugô, cognate with Swedish båge, English bow, German Bogen.


bue

buen (definite singular)
buer (indefinite plural)
buene (definite plural)

From Danish bue, from Old Norse bogi, from Proto-Germanic *bugô.

no:bue (arkitektur)
no:bue (geometri)
no:bue (våpen)


nuke

Clipping of nuclear weapon. The verb is derived from the noun.

(colloquial) vessel running on nuclear power

Confronted with the threat of several nukes on the island, we soon realized that the Long Island Sound is being used as a massive cooling basin for nuclear reactors.

1979, Anna Gyorgy et al., “Atomic Power, Nuclear Plants”, in No Nukes: Everyone’s Guide to Nuclear Power (Black Rose Books; no. I.49), Montreal, Que.: Black Rose Books, →ISBN, page 406:

Nukes Don't Pollute

2002, Home Power - Issues 86-91, page 121:

He calculates that nukes might be needed to power energy-intensive “large scale co2 sequestration techniques” as well.

2010, Andrew Nikiforuk, Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent, page 155:

We've analyzed employee manifests at all nukes, LNG, and refineries in the United States for Middle Eastern profile matches.

nuclear power station
nuclear power station


suu

suu (nominative singular)
suut (nominative plural)
suu (accusative nominative singular)
suut (accusative nominative plural)
suun (accusative genitive singular)
suut (accusative genitive plural)
suun (genitive singular)
suiden (genitive plural)
suitten (genitive plural)
suuta (partitive singular)
suita (partitive plural)
suussa (inessive singular)
suissa (inessive plural)
suusta (elative singular)
suista (elative plural)
suuhun (illative singular)
suihin (illative plural)
suulla (adessive singular)
suilla (adessive plural)
suulta (ablative singular)
suilta (ablative plural)
suulle (allative singular)
suille (allative plural)
suuna (essive singular)
suina (essive plural)
suuksi (singular translative)
suiksi (plural translative)
suutta (abessive singular)
suitta (abessive plural)
suin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
suuni (nominative singular)
suuni (nominative plural)
suuni (accusative nominative singular)
suuni (accusative nominative plural)
suuni (accusative genitive singular)
suuni (accusative genitive plural)
suuni (genitive singular)
suideni (genitive plural)
suitteni (genitive plural)
suutani (partitive singular)
suitani (partitive plural)
suussani (inessive singular)
suissani (inessive plural)
suustani (elative singular)
suistani (elative plural)
suuhuni (illative singular)
suihini (illative plural)
suullani (adessive singular)
suillani (adessive plural)
suultani (ablative singular)
suiltani (ablative plural)
suulleni (allative singular)
suilleni (allative plural)
suunani (essive singular)
suinani (essive plural)
suukseni (singular translative)
suikseni (plural translative)
suuttani (abessive singular)
suittani (abessive plural)
suineni (comitative plural)
suusi (nominative singular)
suusi (nominative plural)
suusi (accusative nominative singular)
suusi (accusative nominative plural)
suusi (accusative genitive singular)
suusi (accusative genitive plural)
suusi (genitive singular)
suidesi (genitive plural)
suittesi (genitive plural)
suutasi (partitive singular)
suitasi (partitive plural)
suussasi (inessive singular)
suissasi (inessive plural)
suustasi (elative singular)
suistasi (elative plural)
suuhusi (illative singular)
suihisi (illative plural)
suullasi (adessive singular)
suillasi (adessive plural)
suultasi (ablative singular)
suiltasi (ablative plural)
suullesi (allative singular)
suillesi (allative plural)
suunasi (essive singular)
suinasi (essive plural)
suuksesi (singular translative)
suiksesi (plural translative)
suuttasi (abessive singular)
suittasi (abessive plural)
suinesi (comitative plural)
suumme (nominative singular)
suumme (nominative plural)
suumme (accusative nominative singular)
suumme (accusative nominative plural)
suumme (accusative genitive singular)
suumme (accusative genitive plural)
suumme (genitive singular)
suidemme (genitive plural)
suittemme (genitive plural)
suutamme (partitive singular)
suitamme (partitive plural)
suussamme (inessive singular)
suissamme (inessive plural)
suustamme (elative singular)
suistamme (elative plural)
suuhumme (illative singular)
suihimme (illative plural)
suullamme (adessive singular)
suillamme (adessive plural)
suultamme (ablative singular)
suiltamme (ablative plural)
suullemme (allative singular)
suillemme (allative plural)
suunamme (essive singular)
suinamme (essive plural)
suuksemme (singular translative)
suiksemme (plural translative)
suuttamme (abessive singular)
suittamme (abessive plural)
suinemme (comitative plural)
suunne (nominative singular)
suunne (nominative plural)
suunne (accusative nominative singular)
suunne (accusative nominative plural)
suunne (accusative genitive singular)
suunne (accusative genitive plural)
suunne (genitive singular)
suidenne (genitive plural)
suittenne (genitive plural)
suutanne (partitive singular)
suitanne (partitive plural)
suussanne (inessive singular)
suissanne (inessive plural)
suustanne (elative singular)
suistanne (elative plural)
suuhunne (illative singular)
suihinne (illative plural)
suullanne (adessive singular)
suillanne (adessive plural)
suultanne (ablative singular)
suiltanne (ablative plural)
suullenne (allative singular)
suillenne (allative plural)
suunanne (essive singular)
suinanne (essive plural)
suuksenne (singular translative)
suiksenne (plural translative)
suuttanne (abessive singular)
suittanne (abessive plural)
suinenne (comitative plural)
suunsa (nominative singular)
suunsa (nominative plural)
suunsa (accusative nominative singular)
suunsa (accusative nominative plural)
suunsa (accusative genitive singular)
suunsa (accusative genitive plural)
suunsa (genitive singular)
suidensa (genitive plural)
suittensa (genitive plural)
suutaan (partitive singular)
suutansa (partitive singular)
suitaan (partitive plural)
suitansa (partitive plural)
suussaan (inessive singular)
suussansa (inessive singular)
suissaan (inessive plural)
suissansa (inessive plural)
suustaan (elative singular)
suustansa (elative singular)
suistaan (elative plural)
suistansa (elative plural)
suuhunsa (illative singular)
suihinsa (illative plural)
suullaan (adessive singular)
suullansa (adessive singular)
suillaan (adessive plural)
suillansa (adessive plural)
suultaan (ablative singular)
suultansa (ablative singular)
suiltaan (ablative plural)
suiltansa (ablative plural)
suulleen (allative singular)
suullensa (allative singular)
suilleen (allative plural)
suillensa (allative plural)
suunaan (essive singular)
suunansa (essive singular)
suinaan (essive plural)
suinansa (essive plural)
suukseen (singular translative)
suuksensa (singular translative)
suikseen (plural translative)
suiksensa (plural translative)
suuttaan (abessive singular)
suuttansa (abessive singular)
suittaan (abessive plural)
suittansa (abessive plural)
suineen (comitative plural)
suinensa (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *suu, from Proto-Uralic *śuwe. Cognates include Estonian suu and Hungarian száj.


broom

en-noun

broom (countable and uncountable, plural brooms)

→ Chinook Jargon: bloom

Inherited from Middle English brom, from Old English brōm (“brushwood”), from Proto-West Germanic *brām (“bramble”) (compare Saterland Frisian Brom, West Frisian brem, Dutch braam, German Low German Braam), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrem-, from *bʰer- ‘edge’. Related to brim, brink.
(shotgun): So called because it is (like the cleaning utensil) long and held similarly to a besom and “cleans” what is in front.

So keep talking all that fly shit, and I’ma grab the tool
And the lead will get stuck in your head like a catchy tune
Soon as I look down on a target, bitch, your ass is doomed
Trust exercise with Ahdi, arms out to catch a boom
You see this sweeper I got, it ain’t your average broom
This ring will wet this bitch like a happy groom

2015 September 26, Ms. Hustle (lyricist), Ms. Hustle vs. O’fficial (Summer Madness; 5), Ultimate Rap League, from 48:07–48:28:

I just got the drop, there is an opp
OFB step with the broom

2017 July 17, OFB (RV, Kash, Lowkey, Headie One, Bradz & Tuggzy) (lyrics and music), “Loyal”, 2:45–2:47:

He got forced to hold that broom, that dickhead reminds me of Cinderella

2019 September 11, Yanko (lyrics and music), “Next Up”, in #ACGK, 1:59:

Pull up to the 🎵 get whacked with the broom
TT liz on my line, so you know it got moved
Distribute, click, click, shoot
That's another face on frontline news

2020 July 2, “Stop Check”, LR of TPL (lyrics):

Back that strap then blaze, fry man
Tell bro “make sure you twos that yute”
Rise that stick when the street needs cleaning
The pigs know this ain't no average broom

2020 July 3, “Lightwork Freestyle”, Y.CB of 7th (lyrics):

If F’s in the room
step with the broom
finna here a boom with a boom!

2020 October 23, “Talk Bout Hollows”, DBF MD (lyrics), 0:30–0:33:


metla

metla (nominative singular)
metly (nominative plural)
metly (genitive singular)
metel (genitive plural)
metle (dative singular)
metlám (dative plural)
metlu (accusative singular)
metly (accusative plural)
metlo (singular vocative)
metly (plural vocative)
metle (locative singular)
metlách (locative plural)
metlou (instrumental singular)
metlami (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Old Czech metla, from Proto-Slavic *metъla.

(historical) rod (instrument of corporal punishment)


лук

be-noun

лук • (luk) m inan (genitive лу́ка, nominative plural лу́кі, genitive plural лу́каў, relational adjective лу́чны)

luk (romanization)
лу́ка (genitive)
лу́кі (nominative plural)
лу́каў (genitive plural)
лу́чны (adjective relational)
лук (nominative singular)
лу́кі (nominative plural)
лу́ка (genitive singular)
лу́каў (genitive plural)
лу́ку (dative singular)
лу́кам (dative plural)
лук (accusative singular)
лу́кі (accusative plural)
лу́кам (instrumental singular)
лу́камі (instrumental plural)
лу́ку (locative singular)
лу́ках (locative plural)
лу́кі (count-form plural)

Inherited from Old East Slavic лукъ (lukŭ), from Proto-Slavic *lǫ̑kъ. Cognate with Russian and Ukrainian лук (luk).

inh+

Since her arrival at Casa del Corvo she had found no occasion to use the weapon of Diana; and her beautiful bow of Osage-orange wood, and quiver of plumed arrows, had lain neglected in the lumber-room.

1941 [1865], Mayne Reid, translated by Уладзімір Ляўданскі, Коннік без галавы, Minsk: ДВБ, translation of The Headless Horseman, page 101:

Since her move to Texas, she had found no occasion to get back to this hobby. Her beautiful bow of orange tree wood and plumed arrows had lain neglected in a closet.

Z tahó času jak jana pjerajexala ŭ Tjexas, u jaje nje byló jašče vypadku vjarnucca da hetaha zanjatku. Jaje pryhóžy luk z apjelʹsinavaha dreva i strely z pjerʺjami ŭ xvascje ljažali bjez spravy ŭ šafje.


лук

ru-noun+

лук • (luk) m inan (genitive лу́ка, nominative plural лу́ки, genitive plural лу́ков)

luk (romanization)
лу́ка (genitive)
лу́ки (nominative plural)
лу́ков (genitive plural)
лу́к (nominative singular)
лу́ки (nominative plural)
лу́ка (genitive singular)
лу́ков (genitive plural)
лу́ку (dative singular)
лу́кам (dative plural)
лу́к (accusative singular)
лу́ки (accusative plural)
лу́ком (instrumental singular)
лу́ками (instrumental plural)
лу́ке (prepositional singular)
лу́ках (plural prepositional)

from Old East Slavic лукъ (lukŭ), from Proto-Slavic *lǫkъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *lankás, from Proto-Indo-European *lenk- (“to bend”). Cognate with Lithuanian lankas.


лук

лу̑к (canonical masculine)
lȗk (romanization)
лу̑к (nominative singular)
лу́кови (nominative plural)
лука (genitive singular)
лу́ко̄ва̄ (genitive plural)
луку (dative singular)
луковима (dative plural)
лук (accusative singular)
лукове (accusative plural)
луче (singular vocative)
лукови (plural vocative)
луку (locative singular)
луковима (locative plural)
луком (instrumental singular)
луковима (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lǫkъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *lankás, from Proto-Indo-European *lenk- (“to bend”). Cognate with Lithuanian lankas.


лук

uk-noun

лук • (luk) m inan (genitive лу́ка, nominative plural лу́ки, genitive plural лу́ків)

luk (romanization)
лу́ка (genitive)
лу́ки (nominative plural)
лу́ків (genitive plural)
лук (nominative singular)
лу́ки (nominative plural)
лу́ка (genitive singular)
лу́ків (genitive plural)
лу́кові (dative singular)
лу́ку (dative singular)
лу́кам (dative plural)
лук (accusative singular)
лу́ки (accusative plural)
лу́ком (instrumental singular)
лу́ками (instrumental plural)
лу́ку (locative singular)
лу́ках (locative plural)
лу́ку (singular vocative)
лу́ки (plural vocative)

From Old Ukrainian лукъ (luk), from Old East Slavic лукъ (lukŭ), from Proto-Slavic *lǫkъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *lankás, from Proto-Indo-European *lenk- (“to bend”).


luk

luk (nominative singular)
luky (nominative plural)
luku (genitive singular)
luků (genitive plural)
luku (dative singular)
lukům (dative plural)
luk (accusative singular)
luky (accusative plural)
luku (singular vocative)
luky (plural vocative)
luku (locative singular)
lucích (locative plural)
lukem (instrumental singular)
luky (instrumental plural)

→ Polish: łuk

Inherited from Old Czech luk, from Proto-Slavic *lǫkъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *lankás, from Proto-Indo-European *lenk- (“to bend”).

Meronyms: lučiště, tětiva


luk

lȕk (canonical masculine)
лу̏к (Cyrillic)
luk (nominative singular)
lukovi (nominative plural)
luka (genitive singular)
lukova (genitive plural)
luku (dative singular)
lukovima (dative plural)
luk (accusative singular)
lukove (accusative plural)
luče (singular vocative)
lukovi (plural vocative)
luku (locative singular)
lukovima (locative plural)
lukom (instrumental singular)
lukovima (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lukъ. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend”). Compare Low German look, Look, German Lauch, Swedish lök, English leek.


luk

sk-noun

luk m inan (relational adjective lukový)

lukový (adjective relational)
nominative
luk (singular)
luky (plural)
genitive
luku (singular)
lukov (plural)
dative
lukom (plural)
accusative
locative
lukoch (plural)
instrumental
lukom (singular)
lukmi (plural)


lukostrelec

lukostrelec m pers (female equivalent lukostrelkyňa, relational adjective lukostrelecký)

lukostrelkyňa (feminine)
lukostrelecký (adjective relational)
nominative
lukostrelec (singular)
lukostrelci (plural)
genitive
lukostrelca (singular)
lukostrelcov (plural)
dative
lukostrelcovi (singular)
lukostrelcom (plural)
accusative
locative
lukostrelcoch (plural)
instrumental
lukostrelcom (singular)
lukostrelcami (plural)

From luk (“bow”) + -o- (“shooter”) + strelec.


archer

from Middle English archer, archere, from Old French archier, from Vulgar Latin *arcārius, alteration of arcuārius, from Latin arcus (“bow”). Displaced native Old English sċytta.

/ˈɑː(ɹ).t͡ʃə(ɹ)/

-ɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃə(ɹ)

One who shoots an arrow from a bow or a bolt from a crossbow.

boogskutter

one who shoots an arrow from a bow or a bolt from a crossbow


archer

fr-noun

archer m (plural archers, feminine archère)

From arche, a variant of arc (“bow”) + -er, or from Middle French archier, from Old French archier, from Vulgar Latin *arcārius, alteration of arcuārius, from Latin arcus (“bow”).


лучник

ru-noun+

лу́чник • (lúčnik) m anim (genitive лу́чника, nominative plural лу́чники, genitive plural лу́чников)

лу́чник (canonical)
lúčnik (romanization)
лу́чника (genitive)
лу́чники (nominative plural)
лу́чников (genitive plural)
лу́чник (nominative singular)
лу́чники (nominative plural)
лу́чника (genitive singular)
лу́чников (genitive plural)
лу́чнику (dative singular)
лу́чникам (dative plural)
лу́чника (accusative singular)
лу́чников (accusative plural)
лу́чником (instrumental singular)
лу́чниками (instrumental plural)
лу́чнике (prepositional singular)
лу́чниках (plural prepositional)

[ˈɫut͡ɕnʲɪk]


лучник

uk-noun

лу́чник • (lúčnyk) m pers (genitive лу́чника, nominative plural лу́чники, genitive plural лу́чників)

лу́чник (canonical)
lúčnyk (romanization)
лу́чника (genitive)
лу́чники (nominative plural)
лу́чників (genitive plural)
лу́чник (nominative singular)
лу́чники (nominative plural)
лу́чника (genitive singular)
лу́чників (genitive plural)
лу́чникові (dative singular)
лу́чнику (dative singular)
лу́чникам (dative plural)
лу́чника (accusative singular)
лу́чників (accusative plural)
лу́чником (instrumental singular)
лу́чниками (instrumental plural)
лу́чникові (locative singular)
лу́чнику (locative singular)
лу́чниках (locative plural)
лу́чнику (singular vocative)
лу́чники (plural vocative)


fletcher

Inherited from Middle English fleccher, from Old French flechier; equivalent to fletch + -er.

This thing, if a man take not hede on, he may chaunce have cauſe to ſay ſo of his fletcher, as in dreſſinge of meate is commonlye ſayde of cookes: and that is, that God ſendeth us good feathers, but the devill noughtye fletchers.

1544 (date written; published 1571), Roger Ascham, Toxophilus, the Schole, or Partitions, of Shooting. […], London: […] Thomas Marshe, →OCLC; republished in The English Works of Roger Ascham, […], London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley, […], and J[ohn] Newbery, […], 1761, →OCLC, book 2, page 148:

In order that distant countries should be furnished with bowyers, fletchers, and arrow head makers, any of those workmen, not being freemen of London, might be sent by the appointment of the king's council, the lord chancellor, lord privy seal, or one of them, to inhabit the city, borough or town within the realm that was destitute of such artificers.

1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 38:

Besides the bowyers and fletchers who made the bows and arrows, others were employed to keep them in repair: the pay of these men was sixpence a-day. Among the Tolls at Carlton Ride is the Account of the Clerk of the Privy Wardrobe, for armour, shot, &c., from 1372 to 1374; where, among many curious entries, occurs one “for the wages of two fletchers, each at vid. a-day, for going in the king's ships, and for the keeping and mending of bows and arrows in the said voyage".

1859, “The Arms, Armour and Military Usages of the Fourteenth Century”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 206, page 14:

An arrow maker is a fletcher, or, more exactly, one who feathers arrows.

1955, “Sticks and Strings (A pot-pourri on bow and arrows from an article in "Michigan Conservation")”, in The Bowhunter, number 5, page 29:

I don't like using a fletcher, the single feather ones are too slow, and the three feather ones inaccurate.

1940, Archery News, volumes 19-27, page 35:

A fletcher that mechanically takes care of gluing feathers to arrow shafts is a great help in either making or repairing arrows.

Fletching jigs are available either as a single fletch unit or as a multi-fletcher, which can fletch up to six arrows at once.

2014, Brian J. Sorrells, Guide to the Longbow: Tips, Advice, and History for Target Shooting and Hunting:

A fletcher is the tool that actually holds the arrow and sets the vane or feather in place while it is being glued.

1992, by Randolph J. Hempton, Michigan Out-of-doors, volume 46, page 72:

A device to assist in fletching or feathering arrows.

Robert Frankham of Colchester, fletcher, or maker of bows and arrowy, did, by his will, dated the 20th of July, 1577, give a yearly rent-charge of thirteen shillings and four-pence out of a tenement and six acres of land in West Bergholt, for ever;

1810, The history and antiquities of the borough of Colchester, in the County of Essex:

Very speedily the Fletcher arrived. It was his trade, the making of bows and arrows, and the marks of the various makers were as well known to him as the marks on his own.

1853, “A Narrative of Border Warfare”, in The United Service Magazine, page 402:

[…] some of the best bows were made by Elven fletchers in the nearby woods to the east of the city.

2012, Shaun Robinson, A Knights Realm: Forsaken Rise, page 13:

In the spring of 1415 Nicholas Mynot was ordered by an impatient Henry to take on another dozen fletchers at the Tower armoury workshop to step up production of the bows and arrows needed in France

2012, Nigel Jones, Tower: An Epic History of the Tower of London, page 88:

Generally, a manufacturer of bows and arrows.

[…] the defendants cut down and lowered, and kept and continued so cut down and lowered, a part of the bank of the said river, situate and being between the mill of the defendants and the mill of the plaintiff, and on a part of the said bank so lowered, built and erected, and kept and continued so built and erected, a certain weir or fletcher, and by that means caused large quantities of the water of the said river, which otherwise would, and always before had, and still of right ought to have flowed to and through the plaintiff's mill, to flow in a new course or channel, […] and the said weir or fletcher, built and erected there by the defendant Inge in the month of June 1822; […]

1831, Liggins v. Inge, T. T. 1831 (court case), in Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts (1832), page 289

They [some boards] had been washed away from the fletcher by the flood.

1896 September 5, Evesham Journal, quoted in the English Dialect Dictionary

You saw the river as you came along. Just above that bridge where you crossed there is a fletcher - weir, as some call them. Diver [a dog] used to cross the stream regular by running over the fletcher, and the other dogs picked up the trick from him.

1902, The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women, page 451:

(UK, dialect, possibly dated) A weir or dam.


šíp

šíp (nominative singular)
šípy (nominative plural)
šípu (genitive singular)
šípů (genitive plural)
šípu (dative singular)
šípům (dative plural)
šíp (accusative singular)
šípy (accusative plural)
šípe (singular vocative)
šípy (plural vocative)
šípu (locative singular)
šípech (locative plural)
šípem (instrumental singular)
šípy (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Old Czech šíp, from Proto-Slavic *šipъ.


šíp

sk-noun

šíp m inan (genitive singular šípu, nominative plural šípy, genitive plural šípov, declension pattern of dub)

šípu (genitive singular)
šípy (nominative plural)
šípov (genitive plural)
dub (declension-pattern-of)
šíp (nominative singular)
šípy (nominative plural)
šípa (genitive singular)
šípu (genitive singular)
šípov (genitive plural)
šípu (dative singular)
šípom (dative plural)
šíp (accusative singular)
šípy (accusative plural)
šípe (locative singular)
šípoch (locative plural)
šípom (instrumental singular)
šípmi (instrumental plural)


corn

en-noun

corn (usually uncountable, plural corns)

Kashubian: kòrné (Canada)

Tok Pisin: kon

→ Maori: kānga

Inherited from Middle English corn, from Old English corn, from Proto-West Germanic *korn, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain; worn-down”), from *ǵerh₂- (“grow old, mature”). The sense "maize" is a clipping of Indian corn. Cognate with Dutch koren, German Low German Koorn, German Korn, Danish korn, Norwegian Bokmål korn, Norwegian Nynorsk korn and Swedish korn; see also Albanian grurë, Russian зерно́ (zernó), Czech zrno, Latin grānum and Lithuanian žirnis. Doublet of grain, gram, granum, and grao.

doublet

what does that have to do with the price of corn

R.I.P Scumpy ah you did say Popcaan
And if a boy diss we clap corn.

2014 June 9, Andrae Hugh Sutherland respectively Popcaan of Popcaan (lyrics and music), “Where We Come From” (track 13), in Where We Come From:

We got spinners and dotties
We got .40s and MACs
We got nuff live corn
[…] See the four-door pausing
Skengs out, everyone runnin
But the corn just slapped and floored em
50 shots in that mop

2016 September 9, Liquez respectively Dimzy of 67 (lyrics and music), “Jump Out Gang” (track 7), in Let’s Lurk:

(Jamaica, MLE, slang, firearms, uncountable) Bullets, ammunition, charge and discharge of firearms.


arqueiro

From Old Galician-Portuguese arqueiro (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *arcārius, alteration of arcuārius (“of bows”), from Latin arcus (“bow”). Equivalent to arco + -eiro.


arqueiro

pt-noun

arqueiro m (plural arqueiros, feminine arqueira, feminine plural arqueiras)

arqueiros (plural)
arqueira (feminine)
arqueiras (feminine plural)

From Old Galician-Portuguese arqueiro, from Vulgar Latin *arcārius, alteration of arcuārius (“of bows”), from Latin arcus (“bow”). By surface analysis, arco + -eiro.

(archery) archer (person who practices the sport of archery)


τόξο

tóxo (romanization)
τόξα (plural)
τόξο (nominative singular)
τόξα (nominative plural)
τόξου (genitive singular)
τόξων (genitive plural)
τόξο (accusative singular)
τόξα (accusative plural)
τόξο (singular vocative)
τόξα (plural vocative)

From Ancient Greek τόξον (tóxon, “bow”).


crossbow

→ Irish: crosbhogha (calque)

→ Japanese: クロスボウ

→ Welsh: bwa croes (calque)

From Middle English crosbowe, crossebowe, equivalent to cross + bow.

A mechanised weapon, based on the bow and arrow, that shoots bolts.


koza

kózka (diminutive)
koza (nominative singular)
kozy (nominative plural)
kozy (genitive singular)
kóz (genitive plural)
kozie (dative singular)
kozom (dative plural)
kozę (accusative singular)
kozy (accusative plural)
kozą (instrumental singular)
kozami (instrumental plural)
kozie (locative singular)
kozach (locative plural)
kozo (singular vocative)
kozy (plural vocative)

→ Low Prussian: Koss

Cobitis taenia
Cobitis taenia#Translingual

any spined loach (Cobitis, especially Cobitis taenia or golden loach)


handgun

Petric used his father's key to open a lockbox and remove a 9mm handgun and the game.

2009 January 13, M. R. Kropko, “Video-game addiction rejected as defence”, in Toronto Star:

A related design and marketing innovation has been the sale to civilians of “vest busters,” handguns specifically designed to penetrate body armor.

2013, Tom Diaz, The Last Gun: How Changes in the Gun Industry are Killing Americans and what it Will Take to Stop it, page 166:

A small gun with a relatively short barrel, designed to be held and operated with a single hand.


shotgun

en-noun

shotgun (countable and uncountable, plural shotguns)

desc

Japanese: → 散弾銃 (sandanjū) (calque), → ショットガン (shottogan)

→ Tok Pisin: sot gan

From shot + gun. Front passenger seat sense comes from ride shotgun.

Meat was cooked up within hours after the hunter killed the deer with his shotgun.

You can't talk to a man / With a shotgun in his hand

1971, Carole King, Gerry Goffin (lyrics and music), “Smackwater Jack”, in Tapestry, Ode Records:

(firearms) A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.


arco

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese arco, from Latin arcus, from Proto-Italic *arkuos.


arco

From Latin arcus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo- (“bow, arrow”).

der

suonare con arco

(music) bow (used to play string instruments)


arco

From Old Galician-Portuguese arco, arquo (“arch, bow”), from Latin arcus (“bow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo- (“bow, arrow”).

bow (rod used to play stringed instruments)

(ophthalmology) arcus (white band of cholesterol that forms at the edge of the cornea)


arco

Inherited from Latin arcus (whence English archery), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo- (“bow, arrow”). In some senses inherited, in others borrowed directly from Latin. Cognate with English arrow, arc, and arch.

tirar con arco

(sports, Latin America) goal (structure)


arf

Welsh: arf

From Proto-Brythonic *arβ̃, borrowed from Latin arma.


arf

From Middle Welsh arf, from Proto-Brythonic *arβ̃, borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin arma.


South Yemen

People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen

(historical) A former country in the Middle East from 1967 until 1990; full name People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.


North Yemen

(historical) A country in the Middle East until 1990.


fluke

From Old English flōc (“flatfish”), of Germanic origin, related to German flach (“flat”), Old Norse floke (“flatfish”), all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *flakaz.

A summer flounder (Paralichthys dentatus)


fluke

Mid-16th century in the sense of “anchor blade”. Probably the same word as in etymology 2 above or else a related word for something flat (cf. Proto-Germanic *flakaz). A derivation from Middle Low German vlögel (“wing”), from Proto-Germanic *flugilaz, seems phonetically impossible. If anything, related vlōch, vlucht (“flight”, both also “wing”) or even *vlunke (modern Low German Flunk (“wing, pinion”)) are more plausible candidates. Note that the kind of whale's fin is called Fluke in contemporary German, but this is likely from English.

The fluke of the anchor was wedged between two outcroppings of rock and could not be dislodged.

The honest, rough piece of iron, so simple in appearance, has more parts than the human body has limbs: the ring, the stock, the crown, the flukes, the palms, the shank. All this, according to the journalist, is “cast” when a ship arriving at an anchorage is brought up.

1904–1906, Joseph Conrad, chapter IV, in The Mirror of the Sea, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers, published October 1906, →OCLC:

(nautical) Any of the triangular blades at the end of an anchor, designed to catch the ground.

The polearm had a wide, sharpened fluke attached to the central point.

A metal hook on the head of certain staff weapons (such as a bill), made in various forms depending on function, whether used for grappling or to penetrate armour when swung at an opponent.

контра

a metal hook on the head of certain staff weapons


ferrum

la-noun

ferrum n (genitive ferrī); second declension

ferrī (genitive)
ferrum (nominative singular)
ferra (nominative plural)
ferrī (genitive singular)
ferrōrum (genitive plural)
ferrō (dative singular)
ferrīs (dative plural)
ferrum (accusative singular)
ferra (accusative plural)
ferrō (ablative singular)
ferrīs (ablative plural)
ferrum (singular vocative)
ferra (plural vocative)

Balkan Romance:

Aromanian: her, heru, hjeru

Istro-Romanian: fľer

Megleno-Romanian: ier, ieru

Romanian: fier, fer — regional

Dalmatian:

fiar

Italo-Romance:

Corsican: ferru, farru

Italian: ferro

→? Sabir: ferro

Neapolitan: fierro

Tarantino: fierro

Sicilian: ferru

North Italian:

Gallo-Italic:

Emilian: fèr

Ligurian: færo

Lombard: fèr

Piedmontese: fer

Romagnol: fër

Friulian: fiêr

Istriot: fièro

Ladin: fer

Romansch: fier

Venetan: fero

Gallo-Romance:

desc

Franco-Provençal: fèr, fèrro, fa, far, farou, fè, fê

desctree

Old French: fer, fier
Middle French: fer
French: fer (see there for further descendants)
Norman: fé (France, Jersey), faer (Guernsey), fer (Sark)
Walloon: fier

Occitano-Romance:

Gascon: hèr

Occitan: fèrre, ferri, fèr

Old Catalan: ferr, ferre, ferro

Catalan: ferro

Ibero-Romance:

Navarro-Aragonese: fierro

Aragonese: fierro

Ribagorçan: ferri

Old Leonese: fierru

desc

Asturian: fierro, fierru, ḥierru, ḥierro

Extremaduran: hierru

Leonese: fierru

Mirandese: fierro

Old Galician-Portuguese: ferro

Fala: ferru

Galician: ferro

Portuguese: ferro (see there for further descendants)

desctree

Old Spanish: fierro
Ladino: fierro
Spanish: fierro, hierro
Papiamentu: heru

Insular Romance:

desc

Sardinian: ferru (most dialects), erru (most Nuorese varieties)

Borrowings:

→ English: ferrum

→ Malay: ferum

→ Translingual: Fe

From earlier *ferzom, from a substrate loanword from an unknown source. According to de Vaan, possibly from a Phoenician dialect, 𐤁𐤓𐤆𐤋 (brzl /barzel/, “iron”), akin to Aramaic פַּרְזְלָא, ܦܪܙܠܐ (parzəlā, “iron”), Akkadian 𒀭𒁇 (parzillum, “iron”), Ugaritic 𐎁𐎗𐎏𐎍 (brḏl, “iron”), considered of Anatolian origin. The word could have entered Latin through Etruscan.

unk

unknown

cog

Aramaic פַּרְזְלָא

Non est miscix. ferrum optimum daturus est, sine fuga, carnarium in medio, ut amphitheater videat.

c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 45.6

He is no flibbertigibbet, he will give the best fight, without flight, a carnage in the middle, so that the whole amphitheater will see it.

c. 161, Dig. XXVIII.I.8.4 Gaius libro septimo decimo ad edictum provinciale
Hi vero, qui ad ferrum aut ad bestias aut in metallum damnantur, libertatem perdunt bonaque eorum publicantur: unde apparet amittere eos testamenti factionem.

But those sentenced to fight in the arena or with the beasts or to work in the mines lose freedom and their assets are forfeited: hence one sees that the efficacy of their last will must be denied.


gnat

gnacik (diminutive)
gnat (nominative singular)
gnaty (nominative plural)
gnata (genitive singular)
gnatów (genitive plural)
gnatowi (dative singular)
gnatom (dative plural)
gnata (accusative singular)
gnaty (accusative plural)
gnatem (instrumental singular)
gnatami (instrumental plural)
gnacie (locative singular)
gnatach (locative plural)
gnacie (singular vocative)
gnaty (plural vocative)


frag

Police up your extra ammo and frags, don't leave nothing for the dinks.

1986, Oliver Stone, Platoon, spoken by Sergeant Elias (Willem Dafoe):

fragmentation grenade
fragmentation grenade

(military slang) A fragmentation grenade.


anima

From Latin anima, from animus, from Proto-Italic *anamos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁mos, a nominal derivative of *h₂enh₁- (“breathe”). Doublet of alma.

(firearms) the inner cavity created by the chamber and the barrel


zwaard

nl-noun

zwaard n (plural zwaarden, diminutive zwaardje n)

zwaarden (plural)
zwaardje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: swaard

Negerhollands: sweerd

From Middle Dutch swert, swaert, from Old Dutch swert, from Proto-West Germanic *swerd, from Proto-Germanic *swerdą, ultimately from one of three Proto-Indo-European roots: Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to cut, to fester”) (from whence zweren (“to fester”)), *suer- (“to hang”) (from whence zwaar (“heavy”)), or *uer- (“to defend”) (from whence weren (“to defend”), see also Swedish värja). Compare Old Saxon swerd, Low German Sweerd, Old High German swert, German Schwert, Old Frisian swerd, West Frisian swurd, Old English sweord, English sword, Old Norse sverð, Danish sværd, Swedish svärd.


chamber

From Middle English chambre, borrowed from Old French chambre, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”). Doublet of camera.

A committee of marriageable ladies, or of any Christian persons interested in the propagation of the domestic virtues, should employ a Cruikshank or a Leech, or some other kindly expositor of the follies of the day, to make a series of designs representing the horrors of a bachelor's life in chambers, and leading the beholder to think of better things, and a more wholesome condition.

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Which Had Very Nearly Been the Last of the Story”, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume II, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 120:

(dated, usually in the plural) Rooms in a lodging house.

A room or set of rooms
Rooms in a lodging house.

Dianne loaded a cartridge into the chamber of the rifle, then prepared to take aim at the target.

(firearms) The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.

حُجْرَة

part of a firearm holding the round before firing

(firearms) One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.

патронник

compartment holding a bullet of a revolver

(historical) A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.


chamber

en-verb

chamber (third-person singular simple present chambers, present participle chambering, simple past and past participle chambered)

chambers (present singular third-person)
chambering (participle present)
chambered (participle past)
chambered (past)

The hunter fired at the geese and missed, then shrugged his shoulders and chambered another cartridge.

(transitive) To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition.


cámara

From Old Galician-Portuguese camara (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin camara, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “a vaulted chamber”).

der

(firearms) the area holding the ammunition round

chamber
the area holding the ammunition round


catapulta

la-noun

catapulta f (genitive catapultae); first declension

catapultae (genitive)
catapulta (nominative singular)
catapultae (nominative plural)
catapultae (genitive singular)
catapultārum (genitive plural)
catapultae (dative singular)
catapultīs (dative plural)
catapultam (accusative singular)
catapultās (accusative plural)
catapultā (ablative singular)
catapultīs (ablative plural)
catapulta (singular vocative)
catapultae (plural vocative)

→ Catalan: catapulta

→ Corsican: catapulta

→ English: catapulta (learned)

→ German: Katapult

→ Italian: catapulta

desc

→ Middle French: cacapulte, catapulte, cathapulte

French: catapulte
→ Romanian: catapultă

→ English: catapult

→ Polish: katapulta

→ Portuguese: catapulta

→ Spanish: catapulta

[kät̪äˈpʊɫ̪t̪ä]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek καταπέλτης (katapéltēs).


catapulta

Learned borrowing from Latin catapulta, from Ancient Greek καταπέλτης (katapéltēs), from κατά (katá, “downwards, into, against”), from πάλλω (pállō, “to poise or sway a missile before it is thrown”).


双節棍

ja-noun

双節棍(ぬんちゃく) or 双節棍(ヌンチャク) • (nunchaku)

双節棍 (canonical)
双節棍 (canonical)
nunchaku (romanization)

[nɯ̟̃ɲ̟t͡ɕa̠kɯ̟]

Borrowed from Okinawan 双節棍 (nunchaku), from Hokkien 兩節棍／雙節棍 /两节棍／双节棍 (nn̄g-chat-kùn).


nunchaku

en-noun

nunchaku (countable and uncountable, plural nunchakus)

Borrowed from Okinawan 双節棍 (nunchaku) (compare Japanese 双節棍 (nunchaku)), probably from Hokkien 兩節棍 /两节棍 (nn̄g-chat-kùn, literally “two-segment cudgel”), from 兩 /两 (nn̄g, “two”) + 節 /节 (chat, “joint; link; segment”) + 棍 (kùn, “cudgel; stick”).

der

(countable) A weapon originating from Okinawa, Japan, consisting of two sticks joined by a chain or cord.

tsako

weapon consisting of two sticks joined by a chain or cord

(uncountable) The skill of using this weapon in martial arts.


yay

az-noun

yay (definite accusative yayı, plural yaylar)

yayı (accusative definite)
yaylar (plural)
yay (nominative singular)
yaylar (nominative plural)
yayı (accusative definite singular)
yayları (accusative definite plural)
yaya (dative singular)
yaylara (dative plural)
yayda (locative singular)
yaylarda (locative plural)
yaydan (ablative singular)
yaylardan (ablative plural)
yayın (definite genitive singular)
yayların (definite genitive plural)
yayım (first-person nominative possessive singular)
yaylarım (first-person nominative possessive singular)
yayın (nominative possessive second-person singular)
yayların (nominative possessive second-person singular)
yayı (nominative possessive singular third-person)
yayları (nominative possessive singular third-person)
yayımız (first-person nominative plural possessive)
yaylarımız (first-person nominative plural possessive)
yayınız (nominative plural possessive second-person)
yaylarınız (nominative plural possessive second-person)
yayı (nominative plural possessive third-person)
yayları (nominative plural possessive third-person)
yayımı (accusative first-person possessive singular)
yaylarımı (accusative first-person possessive singular)
yayını (accusative possessive second-person singular)
yaylarını (accusative possessive second-person singular)
yayını (accusative possessive singular third-person)
yaylarını (accusative possessive singular third-person)
yayımızı (accusative first-person plural possessive)
yaylarımızı (accusative first-person plural possessive)
yayınızı (accusative plural possessive second-person)
yaylarınızı (accusative plural possessive second-person)
yayını (accusative plural possessive third-person)
yaylarını (accusative plural possessive third-person)
yayıma (dative first-person possessive singular)
yaylarıma (dative first-person possessive singular)
yayına (dative possessive second-person singular)
yaylarına (dative possessive second-person singular)
yayına (dative possessive singular third-person)
yaylarına (dative possessive singular third-person)
yayımıza (dative first-person plural possessive)
yaylarımıza (dative first-person plural possessive)
yayınıza (dative plural possessive second-person)
yaylarınıza (dative plural possessive second-person)
yayına (dative plural possessive third-person)
yaylarına (dative plural possessive third-person)
yayımda (first-person locative possessive singular)
yaylarımda (first-person locative possessive singular)
yayında (locative possessive second-person singular)
yaylarında (locative possessive second-person singular)
yayında (locative possessive singular third-person)
yaylarında (locative possessive singular third-person)
yayımızda (first-person locative plural possessive)
yaylarımızda (first-person locative plural possessive)
yayınızda (locative plural possessive second-person)
yaylarınızda (locative plural possessive second-person)
yayında (locative plural possessive third-person)
yaylarında (locative plural possessive third-person)
yayımdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
yaylarımdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
yayından (ablative possessive second-person singular)
yaylarından (ablative possessive second-person singular)
yayından (ablative possessive singular third-person)
yaylarından (ablative possessive singular third-person)
yayımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
yaylarımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
yayınızdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
yaylarınızdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
yayından (ablative plural possessive third-person)
yaylarından (ablative plural possessive third-person)
yayımın (first-person genitive possessive singular)
yaylarımın (first-person genitive possessive singular)
yayının (genitive possessive second-person singular)
yaylarının (genitive possessive second-person singular)
yayının (genitive possessive singular third-person)
yaylarının (genitive possessive singular third-person)
yayımızın (first-person genitive plural possessive)
yaylarımızın (first-person genitive plural possessive)
yayınızın (genitive plural possessive second-person)
yaylarınızın (genitive plural possessive second-person)
yayının (genitive plural possessive third-person)
yaylarının (genitive plural possessive third-person)

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yā(y) (“bow”).


yay

yayı (accusative definite)
yaylar (plural)

From Ottoman Turkish یای (yay), from Proto-Turkic *yā(y) (“bow”).
Cognates
Cognate with Azerbaijani yay, Crimean Tatar yay, Gagauz yay, Bashkir йәйә (yəyə), Chuvash укҫу (ukśu), Nogai яй (yay), Khakas чааӌах (çaacax), Karaim jaj, йайа, йаа, Kazakh жақ (jaq), Kyrgyz жаа (jaa), Southern Altai јаа (ǰaa), Tatar җәя (cäya), Turkmen ýāý, Uzbek yoy, Tuvan ча (ça), Uyghur يا (ya), etc.


sabel

head

sabel c (singular definite sablen or sabelen, plural indefinite sabler)

sablen (definite singular)
sabelen (definite singular)
sabler (indefinite plural)
sabel (indefinite nominative singular)
sablen (definite nominative singular)
sabelen (definite nominative singular)
sabler (indefinite nominative plural)
sablerne (definite nominative plural)
sabels (genitive indefinite singular)
sablens (definite genitive singular)
sabelens (definite genitive singular)
sablers (genitive indefinite plural)
sablernes (definite genitive plural)

From German Säbel, from Hungarian szablya (“sabre”).


sabel

nl-noun

sabel m (plural sabels, diminutive sabeltje n)

sabels (plural)
sabeltje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: sabel

→ Japanese: サーベル (sāberu)

→ Papiamentu: sabel (dated)

→ Indonesian: sabel

Borrowed from German Sabel, obsolete form of Säbel, from Polish szabla, from Hungarian szablya.

sabre (Commonwealth), saber (US) (sword with a narrow, slightly curved blade)


sabel

sabelen (definite singular)
sabler (indefinite plural)
sablene (definite plural)

From Hungarian szablya, via German Säbel.


sabel

sabelen (definite singular)
sablar (indefinite plural)
sablane (definite plural)


sabel

sabel (indefinite nominative singular)
sabels (genitive indefinite singular)
sabeln (definite nominative singular)
sabelns (definite genitive singular)
sablar (indefinite nominative plural)
sablars (genitive indefinite plural)
sablarna (definite nominative plural)
sablarnas (definite genitive plural)

Borrowed from German Säbel (Late Middle High German sabel), from Hungarian szablya.

sabre (a light sword, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point)


æsc

æsċ (canonical masculine)
æscas (nominative plural)
æsċ (nominative singular)
æscas (nominative plural)
æsċ (accusative singular)
æscas (accusative plural)
æsċes (genitive singular)
æsca (genitive plural)
æsċe (dative singular)
æscum (dative plural)

desctree

Middle English: asshe
English: ash
Scots: aish, esh

→ English: æsc (learned)

From Proto-West Germanic *ask. See there for more.

a kind of small, light Viking ship used for raids


forty-five

The robber brandished a forty-five at the cashier to make her empty the till for him.

The phoenix he helped create
Out of control boy without a dad
Shot the gun that startled my life
While I drove him with a forty-five

1998, “Soil”, in Serj Tankian (lyrics), Daron Malakian (music), System of a Down, performed by System of a Down, Track 7:


quiver

From Middle English quiver, from Anglo-Norman quivre, from Old Dutch cocare (source of Dutch koker, and cognate to Old English cocer (“quiver, case”)), from Proto-West Germanic *kokar (“container”), said to be from Hunnic, possibly from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür (“leather vessel for liquids”); see there for more. Replaced early modern cocker, the inherited reflex of that West Germanic word.

դող

shaking or moving with a slight trembling motion

Don Pedro: Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.

1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], line 271:

Arrows were carried in quiver, called also an arrow case, which served for the magazine, arrows for immediate use were worn in the girdle.

1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 39:

(weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.


quiver

English: quiver

From Old English *cwifer, probably related to cwic (“alive”).


abacaxi

→ English: abacaxi

→ Hunsrik: Abakaschi

[ɐ.βɐ.kɐˈʃi]

(Brazil, military slang) pineapple (hand grenade)


brand

Inherited from Middle French brand, from Old French brant, from Frankish *brand (“firebrand, flaming sword”), from Proto-Germanic *brandaz (“firebrand, torch, sword”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenu- (“to burn”). Cognate with Old High German brant (“fire, firebrand, burning iron”), Old English brand (“fire, flame, brand, torch, sword, weapon”), Old Norse brandr (“fire, firebrand, sword”). More at English brand.


brand

English: brand

Scots: brand

Yola: broan, brone

From Old English brand, brond, from Proto-West Germanic *brand, from Proto-Germanic *brandaz.


kitara

sw-noun

kitara class VII (plural vitara class VIII)

kitara class VII (canonical)
vitara class VIII (plural)

Borrowed from Omani Arabic كِتّارة (kittāra, “sabre”), from Hindi कटार (kaṭār).


coup

→ Danish: kup

→ Dutch: coup

→ English: coup

→ German: Coup

Mauritian Creole: kou

Norwegian:

→ Norwegian Bokmål: kupp

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: kupp

→ Swedish: kupp

Inherited from Old French colp, cop, from Late Latin colpus, syncopated form of Latin colaphus, from Ancient Greek κόλαφος (kólaphos).

pistolet à six coups


caltrop

From Middle English calketrappe, from Old English calcatrippe (“plant that trips”), from Medieval Latin calcatrippa (“thistle”), from Latin calx or calcare + trappa.

inh

[…] her father, the emperor Alexius, who reigned AD 1081-1118, ordered caltrops to be cast in front of his archers […]

1858, The journal of the British Archaeological Association:

By Sung times, several different types of caltrops had been developed. As in earlier times, both caltrops could be made from both wood and iron...

1954, Joseph Needham, Ling Wang, Science and civilisation in China:

Caltrops, tetrahedrons, and similar devices are designed to puncture vehicle tires or limit foot traffic. The standard design has four points.

2000, Alan Vick, Aerospace operations in urban environments: exploring new concepts:

(weaponry) A small, metal object with spikes arranged so that, when thrown onto the ground, one always faces up as a threat to pedestrians, horses, and vehicles (also used as a heraldic charge).


furniture

en-noun

furniture (usually uncountable, plural furnitures)

From Middle French fourniture (“a supply, or the act of furnishing”), from fournir (“to furnish”).

uder

(firearms) The stock and forearm of a weapon.


nóż

pl-noun

nóż m inan (diminutive nożyk, augmentative nożysko, related adjective nożowy)

nożyk (diminutive)
nożysko (augmentative)
nożowy (adjective)
nóż (nominative singular)
noże (nominative plural)
noża (genitive singular)
noży (genitive plural)
nożowi (dative singular)
nożom (dative plural)
nóż (accusative singular)
noże (accusative plural)
nożem (instrumental singular)
nożami (instrumental plural)
nożu (locative singular)
nożach (locative plural)
nożu (singular vocative)
noże (plural vocative)

knife (utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle; the blade may be pointed for piercing)


World War III

One time ago a crazy dream came to me / I dreamt I was walking into World War Three

1963, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “Talkin' World War III Blues”, in The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan:

And I also wanted to be sure to keep Chiang Kai-shek, who had some notion of starting a World War Number Three, from going into China and doing just that.

1964, Harry S. Truman, 2:16 from the start, in MP2002-410 Several Cuts of Former President Truman Talking about Wars and Korea, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:

The WOPR [War Operations Planning Response] has already fought World War III as a game time and time again.

1983, Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes, WarGames, spoken by Paul Richter:

A hypothetical world war following World War II.

اَلْحَرْبُ اَلْعَالَمِيَّةُ اَلثَّالِثَة


mace

From Middle English mace, borrowed from Old French mace, mache, from Vulgar Latin *mattia, *mattea, matia, (compare Italian mazza, Spanish maza), probably from Proto-West Germanic *mattjō (“cutting tool, hoe”).

der

A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked.

In the foreground one man uses the "head knife” to work over the skin on the beam, while another softens a skin with the currier's mace.

1967, Harold B. Gill, Raymond R. Townsend, Thomas K. Ford, The Leatherworker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg:

A knobbed mallet used by curriers to make leather supple when dressing it.


mace

en-verb

mace (third-person singular simple present maces, present participle macing, simple past and past participle maced)

maces (present singular third-person)
macing (participle present)
maced (participle past)
maced (past)

From the name of one brand of the spray, Mace. Pepper spray may be derived from cayenne pepper, but not from mace (etymology 2 above), which is a different spice; rather, it was named after the weapon (etymology 1).

When Reynaldo and Willie had burst into Larkey's drug store to confront him, the old man had maced Willie square in the eyes with an aerosol can of spermicidal birth-control foam.

1989, Carl Hiaasen, chapter 22, in Skin Tight, New York: Ballantine Books:

(informal) To spray a similar noxious chemical in defense or attack using an available hand-held device such as an aerosol spray can.


mace

Borrowed from Javanese [Term?] and Malay [Term?], meaning "a bean".

An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael.


mace

English: mace

Scots: mace

From Old French mace, from Vulgar Latin *mattia, *mattea, probably from Latin mateola (“hoe”).


mace

fro-noun

mace oblique singular, f (oblique plural maces, nominative singular mace, nominative plural maces)

mace oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
maces (oblique plural)
mace (nominative singular)
maces (nominative plural)

French: masse

desctree

→ Middle English: mace, maas, masse, mase, maiis
English: mace
Scots: mace

From Vulgar Latin *mattia, *mattea, itself probably derived from Latin mateola (“hoe”).


dope

en-noun

dope (countable and uncountable, plural dopes)

From Dutch doop (“thick dipping sauce”), from Dutch dopen (“to dip”), from Middle Dutch dopen, from Old Dutch *dōpen, from Frankish *daupijan, from Proto-Germanic *daupijaną.
“Doop” in the sense “narcotic drug” ultimately refers to viscous opium juice, the drug of choice of the ancient Greeks; “insider information” perhaps from knowing which horse had been doped in a race. Sense of "stupid person" perhaps following from the drug sense (i.e. relating to those intoxicated on opium), compare dope up. Related to English dip and German taufen.

смазка

viscous liquid used to prepare a surface

(uncountable, firearms) Ballistic data on previously fired rounds, used to calculate the required hold over a target.


cymitharra

la-noun

cymithārra f (genitive cymithārrae); first declension

cymithārra (canonical feminine)
cymithārrae (genitive)
cymithārra (nominative singular)
cymithārrae (nominative plural)
cymithārrae (genitive singular)
cymithārrārum (genitive plural)
cymithārrae (dative singular)
cymithārrīs (dative plural)
cymithārram (accusative singular)
cymithārrās (accusative plural)
cymithārrā (ablative singular)
cymithārrīs (ablative plural)
cymithārra (singular vocative)
cymithārrae (plural vocative)

[kʏmɪˈt̪ʰäːrːä]

Omnes autẽ Ianizari ab aliis peditibus amictu breuiore & mitris niueis acuminatis distinguuntur: item armis quae scutum sunt & ensis quẽ Cymitharram uocãt & arcus.

1540, Christophori Richerii Thorignei, De Rebus Turcarum Libri, page 60:


onager

From Middle English onager, onagir (“wild ass; military catapult”), from Anglo-Norman onager, Middle French onager, onagre, Old French onager, onagre (“wild ass; military catapult”) (modern French onagre), from Late Latin onager (“large siege engine”), Latin onager (“wild ass”), from Hellenistic Ancient Greek ὄναγρος (ónagros, “wild ass”), Byzantine Ancient Greek ὄναγρος (ónagros, “large siege engine”), from ὄνος (ónos, “ass”) + ἄγριος (ágrios, “wild”) (from ᾰ̓γρός (ăgrós, “countryside; field”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- (“to drive”)) + -ῐος (-ĭos, suffix forming adjectives)).
The “military engine” sense alludes to the strong recoil of the engine, likened to an onager’s kick; see the 2007 quotation.

der

The onager, meaning "wild ass," derived its name from its powerful recoil, or kick, upon discharge; […] In addition, although Josephus described an onager in action hurling a 100-pound stone over 400 yards, most onagri achieved a shorter range than the ballista, thus exposing their crews to enemy archers.

2007, Jeff Kinard, “Ancient and Medieval Artillery”, in Artillery: An Illustrated History of Its Impact (Weapons and Warfare Series), Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 17:

(military, historical) A military engine acting like a sling which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket powered by the torsion from a bundle of ropes or sinews operated by machinery; a torsion catapult.


onager

la-noun

onager m (genitive onagrī); second declension

onagrī (genitive)
onager (nominative singular)
onagrī (nominative plural)
onagrī (genitive singular)
onagrōrum (genitive plural)
onagrō (dative singular)
onagrīs (dative plural)
onagrum (accusative singular)
onagrōs (accusative plural)
onagrō (ablative singular)
onagrīs (ablative plural)
onager (singular vocative)
onagrī (plural vocative)

French: onagre

Italian: onagro

Portuguese: onagro

Spanish: onagro

→ English: onager

[ˈɔːnäd͡ʒer]

From Hellenistic Ancient Greek ὄναγρος (ónagros, “wild ass”), from ὄνος (ónos, “ass”) + ἄγριος (ágrios, “wild”).


onager

onager (nominative singular)
onagery (nominative plural)
onageru (genitive singular)
onagerów (genitive plural)
onagerowi (dative singular)
onagerom (dative plural)
onager (accusative singular)
onagery (accusative plural)
onagerem (instrumental singular)
onagerami (instrumental plural)
onagerze (locative singular)
onagerach (locative plural)
onagerze (singular vocative)
onagery (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὄναγρος (ónagros).

lbor

(military, historical) onager (a military engine acting like a sling which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket powered by the torsion from a bundle of ropes or sinews operated by machinery; a torsion catapult)


patch

From Middle English patche, of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of earlier Middle English placche (“patch, spot, piece of cloth”), from Old English *plæċċ, *pleċċ (“a spot, mark, patch”), from Proto-West Germanic *plakkju, from Proto-Germanic *plakjō (“spot, stain”). For the loss of l compare pat from Middle English platten. Germanic cognates would then include Middle English plecke, dialectal English pleck (“plot of ground, patch”), West Frisian plak (“place, spot”), Low German Plakk, Plakke (“spot, piece, patch”), Dutch plek (“spot, place, stain, patch”), Dutch plak (“piece, slab”), Swedish plagg (“garment”), Faroese plagg (“cloth, rag”).
Or, possibly a variant of Old French pieche, dialectal variant of piece (“piece”). Compare also Old Occitan petaç (“patch”).

tilkku

small piece of material used to clean a gun barrel

flejtuch

piece of greased cloth used to fit a rifle ball to the bore

(firearms) A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it.

(firearms) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.


pique

→ German: Pik n

→ Macedonian: пик m (pik)

→ Serbo-Croatian: m

Cyrillic script: пи̏к

Latin script: pȉk

→ Slovene: pík

→ Polish: pik m

→ Russian: пи́ка f (píka)

→ Bulgarian: пи́ка f (píka)

quatre de pique


mes

nl-noun

mes n (plural messen, diminutive mesje n)

messen (plural)
mesje (diminutive neuter)

desctree

Afrikaans: mes
→ Zulu: umese
Fanagalo: mes (or directly)

Berbice Creole Dutch: mesi

Jersey Dutch: määs

Negerhollands: mes

Skepi Creole Dutch: masa

→ Indonesian: mes (“medical knife”)

→ Japanese: メス (mesu, “medical knife”)

→ Korean: 메스 (meseu, “medical knife”)

→ Loup A: meschu (from the diminutive form)

→ Malagasy: méso, mésa

From Middle Dutch mets, mes, contraction of *metses, from Old Dutch *metisas, *metsas, from Proto-West Germanic *matisahs (“food knife”).


arbalest

From Middle English arblast, from Old French arbaleste (modern arbalète), from Late Latin arcuballista, from Latin arcus + ballista.

He excelled with the arbalest steel crossbow, winning the nickname the Arbalestier and joined Bahriyya regiment, the crack soldiers who defeated the Crusaders and became known as the Turkish Lions and the Islamic Templars.

2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 329:


archery

en-noun

archery (countable and uncountable, plural archeries)

From Middle English archerie, from Old French archerie, from archier (“archer”). Equivalent to archer + -ery.

(uncountable) The practice or sport of shooting arrows with a bow.


A-bomb

(slang) An atomic bomb; a weapon that derives its energy from nuclear reactions and has enormous destructive power.


kama

head

kama (definite accusative kamayı, plural kamalar)

kamayı (accusative definite)
kamalar (plural)


shuriken

/ˈʃʊə.ɹɪ.kən/

From Japanese 手裏剣 (しゅりけん shuriken), from Middle Chinese 手 (ʃúw "hand") + 裏 (lí "inside") + 劍 (kjæ̀m "sword").

A dart or throwing blade, sometimes with multiple points, used as a weapon by ninja (or samurai).


shuriken

pt-noun

shuriken m or f (plural shurikens or shuriken)

shuriken (throwing blade with multiple points used by ninjas)


手裏剣

Compound of 手裏 (shuri, “in the hand”) + 剣 (ken, “sword; blade”). Originally *syurikemu were straight double-edged throwing blades.

compound

(weaponry) shuriken, throwing star (a ninja weapon)


blow off

en-verb

blow off (third-person singular simple present blows off, present participle blowing off, simple past blew off, past participle blown off)

blows off (present singular third-person)
blowing off (participle present)
blew off (past)
blown off (participle past)

The engine or steamer is blowing off.

The 1 in 200 climb to Survilliers was surmounted with easy competence, the constant speed being just short of 60 m.p.h., the water level (by design) just under half a glass and the steam pressure approximately 275 lb/sq in, or near the blowing-off point.

1961 March, ""Balmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 146:

(intransitive) To let steam escape through a passage provided for the purpose.


muška

sk-noun

muška f (relational adjective mušací, augmentative mušisko)

mušací (adjective relational)
mušisko (augmentative)
nominative
muška (singular)
mušky (plural)
genitive
mušky (singular)
mušiek (plural)
dative
muške (singular)
muškám (plural)
accusative
mušku (singular)
locative
muškách (plural)
instrumental
muškou (singular)
muškami (plural)

an insect looking like a small fly, such as a fruit fly


atlatl

While large game was still hunted, mainly using projectile spears but later enhanced by atlatls (spear-throwers) and bows and arrows, evidence for the exploitation of small game such as tortoises, rabbits, wild fowl and eggs increased.

2011, Chris Stringer, The Origin of Our Species, Penguin, published 2012, page 144:

World's oldest weapon delivery system. It's called an atlatl. Developed over 30,000 years ago.

2020, Robin Pront, 31:36 from the start, in The Silencing, spoken by Jim Needles (Patrick Garrow):

A spearthrower consisting of a wooden stick with a thong or perpendicularly protruding hook on the rear end that grips a grove or socket on the butt of its accompanying spear (or dart), intended to steady the spear immediately prior to throwing, to increase its potential range when thrown, and to increase its force of penetration of the target.


kopija

kopija f (relational adjective kopijový)

kopijový (adjective relational)
nominative
kopija (singular)
kopije (plural)
genitive
kopije (singular)
kopijí (plural)
dative
kopiji (singular)
kopijam (plural)
accusative
kopiju (singular)
locative
kopijach (plural)
instrumental
kopijou (singular)
kopijami (plural)

sk:Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny


ahtlatl

According to Andrews (2003), ah- ("not") + tlatl ("strip of cloth"), i.e. "a non-sling".

an atlatl, a spearthrower; a combined spearthrower and spear / dart


ornus

la-noun

ornus f (genitive ornī); second declension

ornī (genitive)
ornus (nominative singular)
ornī (nominative plural)
ornī (genitive singular)
ornōrum (genitive plural)
ornō (dative singular)
ornīs (dative plural)
ornum (accusative singular)
ornōs (accusative plural)
ornō (ablative singular)
ornīs (ablative plural)
orne (singular vocative)
ornī (plural vocative)

Dalmatian: uarno

→ French: orne (learned)

Italian: orno, orniello

Romanian: urm

From Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃s-. See also English ash.


ahlspiess

(historical) A polearm used in Germany in the 15th century.


kopje

kopjecko (diminutive)
kopje (nominative singular)
kopi (dual nominative)
kopja (nominative plural)
kopja (genitive singular)
kopjowu (dual genitive)
kopjow (genitive plural)
kopjeju (dative singular)
kopju (dative singular)
kopjoma (dative dual)
kopjam (dative plural)
kopje (accusative singular)
kopi (accusative dual)
kopja (accusative plural)
kopim (instrumental singular)
kopjoma (dual instrumental)
kopjami (instrumental plural)
kopju (locative singular)
kopjoma (dual locative)
kopjach (locative plural)

From Proto-Slavic *kopьje. Cognate with Upper Sorbian kopjo.


kopje

kọ́pje (canonical neuter)
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kópje (nominative singular)
kópji (dual nominative)
kópja (nominative plural)
kópja (genitive singular)
kópij (dual genitive)
kópij (genitive plural)
kópju (dative singular)
kópjema (dative dual)
kópjem (dative plural)
kópje (accusative singular)
kópji (accusative dual)
kópja (accusative plural)
kópju (locative singular)
kópjih (dual locative)
kópjih (locative plural)
kópjem (instrumental singular)
kópjema (dual instrumental)
kópji (instrumental plural)


stockpile

The noun is derived from stock (“supply of anything ready for use”) + pile (“mass of things heaped together”).
The verb is derived from the noun.

nuclear pile

semantically quite different from a nuclear stockpile

en:stock of nuclear weapons specifically

A supply (especially a large one) of something kept for future use, specifically in case the cost of the item increases or if there a shortage.

(specifically, military, weaponry) A supply of nuclear weapons kept by a country; a nuclear stockpile.


stockpile

en-verb

stockpile (third-person singular simple present stockpiles, present participle stockpiling, simple past and past participle stockpiled)

stockpiles (present singular third-person)
stockpiling (participle present)
stockpiled (participle past)
stockpiled (past)

запасявам се

to accumulate or build up a supply of (something)

To accumulate or build up a supply of (something).

(specifically, military, weaponry) To build up a stock of (nuclear weapons).


proof

proof (third-person singular simple present proofs, present participle proofing, simple past and past participle proofed)

proofs (present singular third-person)
proofing (participle present)
proofed (participle past)
proofed (past)

From Middle English proof, from Old French prove, from Late Latin proba (“a proof”), from Latin probō (“to prove”); see prove; compare also the doublet probe.

(transitive, firearms) To test-fire with a load considerably more powerful than the firearm in question's rated maximum chamber pressure, in order to establish the firearm's ability to withstand pressures well in excess of those expected in service without bursting.


clava

la-noun

clāva f (genitive clāvae); first declension

clāva (canonical feminine)
clāvae (genitive)
clāva (nominative singular)
clāvae (nominative plural)
clāvae (genitive singular)
clāvārum (genitive plural)
clāvae (dative singular)
clāvīs (dative plural)
clāvam (accusative singular)
clāvās (accusative plural)
clāvā (ablative singular)
clāvīs (ablative plural)
clāva (singular vocative)
clāvae (plural vocative)

From Proto-Italic *klāwā, from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- (“to beat, break”). Cognate with Latin clādes, percellō, gladius.


foil

en-noun

foil (countable and uncountable, plural foils)

From Middle English foyle, from Middle French fueille, from Old French fueille (“plant leaf”), from Late Latin folia, the plural of folium, mistaken as a singular feminine.
The literary sense is from the practice of backing a gem with metal foil to make it shine more brilliantly.
Doublet of folio and folium, distantly also with phyllo and phyllon.

As she a black silk cap on him begun / To set, for foil of his milk-white to serve.

a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:

1725-1726, William Broome, The Odyssey
Hector has also a foil to set regard

(figuratively) Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something.

baggrund

anything that acts to emphasise the characteristics of something

I personally would collect all the foils from Base Set before this one, but the market is what the market is.

2016, Pojo's Unofficial Big Book of Pokémon, Triumph Books:

A premium trading card with a glossy finish.


foil

[…]but after giving her a dodge, here's another b— follows me upon the foil.

1749, Henry Fielding, chapter IV, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VII:


epee

Borrowed from French épée, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē). Doublet of spatha, spathe, and spade.

(fencing) A sharp-pointed dueling sword with a bell-shaped guard, used (with the end blunted) in sport fencing.


épée

Borrowed from French épée, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē). Doublet of spade and spatha.


épée

Inherited from Middle French espee, from Old French espee, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē). Doublet of spathe, a borrowing from Latin, and espade, a borrowing from Occitan.


brinkmanship

brinkmanship (usually uncountable, plural brinkmanships)

/ˈbɹɪŋk.mənˌʃɪp/

From brink (“border, edge”) + -manship (suffix denoting expertise, involvement, or special status in an area).

suffix

The diplomat accused the other nation’s leader of brinkmanship for refusing to redeploy the troops along their nations’ shared border.

They say that in ancient times the Romans used to take cold showers before deciding on important questions. Perhaps, this should be recommended to some excessively ardent supporters of the policy of brinkmanship.

1959 July, Nikita Khrushchev, “World Affairs”, in [anonymous], transl., Soviet World Outlook: A Handbook of Communist Statements (Department of State Publication; 6836; European and British Commonwealth Series; 56), 3rd edition, Washington, D.C.: Department of State, →OCLC, page 207:

We shall probably have several narrow escapes from Cuban-like brinkmanships, and although these will intensify the realisation of the need for a united world system, the inherent distrust and suspicion with which the present generation has been brought up, coupled with the too slow adaptation of politicians to new situations, will prove too great a hindrance.

1964 June 4, Joseph Rotblat, “Scientists as Peacemakers”, in Nigel Calder, editor, New Scientist, volume 22, number 394, London: Harrison, Raison and Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 619, column 2:

Having said this much, perhaps I can ask you in return that these critics should recognize that the administration, which now bears responsibility for the conduct of our foreign affairs, does not admire force for its own sake, or brinkmanship of any sort.

1965 May 17, William Proxmire, quoting McGeorge Bundy in the The New York Times, 17 May 1965, “Vietnam Debate: Democracy at Work”, in Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 89th Congress, First Session: Appendix (United States Senate), volume 111, part 8, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10688, column 2:

It is high time to look back from the abyss where we are going to step in and give up the brinkmanship until the point of no return is reached.

1972 April–June, Salil Dutta, “Reviews and Notices of Books: Mahaprolay Ki Ghoney Asche? (Are the Last Days Nearer?) By Jagannath Mukherjee, […]”, in Amalendu Bose, editor, The Calcutta Review, volume III, number 4 (New Series), Calcutta, West Bengal: University of Calcutta, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 324:

The Prime Minister [Tony Blair] is in Belfast today, hoping to repeat his triumph of brinkmanship of last April, when he emerged from an apparent negotiating gridlock with the Good Friday peace agreement.

1999 June 28, Derek Brown, “Brinkmanship in Belfast”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-17:

For three months, a battle of brinkmanship has been going on between the government of Alexis Tsipras and its European creditors over a cash-for-reforms plan that would give Greece the €7.2bn worth of rescue funds that it needs to meet its debt payments.

2015 May 6, “The Guardian view on Greece: dangerous brinkmanship: Editorial”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-02-18:

Debt ceiling brinkmanship in 2011 sent stocks tumbling, slowed economic growth and prompted analysts to downgrade the country’s credit rating for the first time.

2021 September 23, David Leonhardt, Ian Prasad Philbrick, “Congressional brinkmanship”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-02-18:

It was an inept piece of brinkmanship from a politician who, while clearly a decent man, has not convincingly navigated his party through ever-choppier waters following the resignation of Nicola Sturgeon last February.

2024 April 29, Editorial, “The Guardian view on Humza Yousaf’s resignation: miscalculation leads to crisis”, in The Guardian, UK, →ISSN:

(chiefly politics) The pursuit of an advantage by appearing to be willing to take a matter to the brink (for example, by risking a dangerous policy) rather than to concede a point.

邊緣政策 /边缘政策

pursuit of an advantage by appearing to be willing to take a matter to the brink rather than to concede a point


Cold War

/ˌkəʊld ˈwɔː/

Coined by American journalist Herbert Bayard Swope in 1947, in a speech he wrote for Bernard Baruch (1870–1965), an American financier and adviser to President Woodrow Wilson.

coinage

Well Russia at the present time is at a crossroads. It is often said that the Cold War is over and that the West has won it- that's only half true. Because what has happened is that the communists have been defeated, but the ideas of freedom now are on trial. If they don't work, there will be a reversion to, not communism which has failed, but what I call a new despotism which would pose a mortal danger to the rest of the world because it would be infected with the virus of Russian imperialism which of course has been a characteristic of Russian foreign policy for centuries.

1992 March 30, Richard Nixon, 13:46 from the start, in Richard Nixon on ‘Inside Washington’, Richard Nixon Foundation, via Seoul Broadcasting System, archived from the original on 2017-10-09:

The situation in Berlin had its uses for Moscow, of course, as for others–the city had become the primary listening post and spy center of the Cold War; some 70 different agencies were operating there by 1961, and it was in Berlin that Soviet espionage scored some of their greatest successes.

2005, Tony Judt, “The Politics of Stability”, in Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945, London: Vintage Books, published 2010, →ISBN:

The dynamic tests at Wildenrath use continuous test tracks built on the site of a former Royal Air Force station that was vacated after the end of the Cold War.

2023 November 29, Philip Haigh, “New Piccadilly Line trains put to the test”, in RAIL, number 997, page 26:

(historical) The period of hostility short of open war between the Soviet Bloc and the Western powers, especially the United States, between 1945 and 1991.

Bernard Baruch
International Herald Tribune
Woodrow Wilson

Koue Oorlog

period of hostility short of open war between the Soviet Bloc and the Western powers, 1945–1991


bastard sword

Any of the large, straight-bladed European swords used with either one or two hands; a longsword.


flamberge

The wavy, cutting surface appears in the ‘flamberge,’ to which flame gave a name: it is nowhere better developed than in the beautiful Malay kris (crease). The object seems to be that of increasing the cutting surface.

1884, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “The Sword: What is It?”, in The Book of the Sword, London: Chatto and Windus, […], →OCLC, page 137:

(weaponry) A European sword, typically a greatsword, which had a wavy blade, possibly to increase the cutting surface or for aid in parrying.


flamberge

(1180) From Old French froberge ("name of a sword") changed to "flamberge" with influence of flambe from Germanic *frōberga composed of the elements *frô (“man”) and bergan (“to protect”) from Proto-Germanic *berganą from Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ- (“to take care of, protect, preserve”)


ok

head

ok (definite accusative oku, plural oklar)

oku (accusative definite)
oklar (plural)

From Ottoman Turkish اوق, from Proto-Turkic *ok (“arrow”). Compare Old Turkic 𐰸 (ok, “arrow”).


nůž

cs-noun

nůž m inan (relational adjective nožový, diminutive nožík)

nožový (adjective relational)
nožík (diminutive)
nůž (nominative singular)
nože (nominative plural)
nože (genitive singular)
nožů (genitive plural)
noži (dative singular)
nožům (dative plural)
nůž (accusative singular)
nože (accusative plural)
noži (singular vocative)
nože (plural vocative)
noži (locative singular)
nožích (locative plural)
nožem (instrumental singular)
noži (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Old Czech nóž, from Proto-Slavic *nožь.


fizzle

en-verb

fizzle (third-person singular simple present fizzles, present participle fizzling, simple past and past participle fizzled)

fizzles (present singular third-person)
fizzling (participle present)
fizzled (participle past)
fizzled (past)

Attested in English since 1525-35. From earlier fysel (“to fart”). Related to fīsa (“to fart”). Compare with Swedish fisa (“to fart (silently)”). See also feist.
It could also come from old Norse: "fise" simply means "blow," like in "blow in the wind." A weather-exposed community in Rogaland, Norway, is called Fister. (In modern language, the verb "fisle" has the same 3 meanings as in English, see below.)

The entire project fizzled after the founder quit.

And so it fizzled to its close with Gary Cahill galloping around as an extra centre-forward, mutinous chants of “you’re not fit to wear the shirt,” from the England followers and Hodgson’s media staff announcing he would not take any questions.

2016 June 27, Daniel Taylor, “England humiliated as Iceland knock them out of Euro 2016”, in The Guardian, London:

(figuratively, informal) To decay or die off to nothing; to burn out; to end less successfully than previously hoped.


rack

rack (third-person singular simple present racks, present participle racking, simple past and past participle racked)

racks (present singular third-person)
racking (participle present)
racked (participle past)
racked (past)
rack (infinitive)

From Old English reċċan (“to stretch out, extend”).

inh

(firearms) To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.

(firearms) To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.


mirar

pt-verb

mirar (first-person singular present miro, first-person singular preterite mirei, past participle mirado)

miro (first-person present singular)
mirei (first-person preterite singular)
mirado (participle past)
mirar (impersonal infinitive)
mirar (first-person infinitive singular)
mirares (infinitive second-person singular)
mirar (infinitive singular third-person)
mirarmos (first-person infinitive plural)
mirardes (infinitive plural second-person)
mirarem (infinitive plural third-person)
mirando (gerund)
mirado (masculine participle past singular)
mirados (masculine participle past plural)
mirada (feminine participle past singular)
miradas (feminine participle past plural)
miro (first-person indicative present singular)
miras (indicative present second-person singular)
mira (indicative present singular third-person)
miramos (first-person indicative plural present)
mirais (indicative plural present second-person)
miram (indicative plural present third-person)
mirava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
miravas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
mirava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
mirávamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
miráveis (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
miravam (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
mirei (first-person indicative preterite singular)
miraste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
mirou (indicative preterite singular third-person)
miramos (Brazil first-person indicative plural preterite)
mirámos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
mirastes (indicative plural preterite second-person)
miraram (indicative plural preterite third-person)
mirara (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
miraras (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
mirara (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
miráramos (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
miráreis (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
miraram (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
mirarei (first-person future indicative singular)
mirarás (future indicative second-person singular)
mirará (future indicative singular third-person)
miraremos (first-person future indicative plural)
mirareis (future indicative plural second-person)
mirarão (future indicative plural third-person)
miraria (conditional first-person singular)
mirarias (conditional second-person singular)
miraria (conditional singular third-person)
miraríamos (conditional first-person plural)
miraríeis (conditional plural second-person)
mirariam (conditional plural third-person)
mire (first-person present singular subjunctive)
mires (present second-person singular subjunctive)
mire (present singular subjunctive third-person)
miremos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
mireis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
mirem (plural present subjunctive third-person)
mirasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
mirasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
mirasse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
mirássemos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
mirásseis (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
mirassem (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
mirar (first-person future singular subjunctive)
mirares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
mirar (future singular subjunctive third-person)
mirarmos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
mirardes (future plural second-person subjunctive)
mirarem (future plural subjunctive third-person)
mira (imperative second-person singular)
mire (imperative singular third-person)
miremos (first-person imperative plural)
mirai (imperative plural second-person)
mirem (imperative plural third-person)
não mires (imperative negative second-person singular)
não mire (imperative negative singular third-person)
não miremos (first-person imperative negative plural)
não mireis (imperative negative plural second-person)
não mirem (imperative negative plural third-person)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mirar, from Latin mīrārī (“marvel at”).


butt

en-verb

butt (third-person singular simple present butts, present participle butting, simple past and past participle butted)

butts (present singular third-person)
butting (participle present)
butted (participle past)
butted (past)

From Middle English butten, from Anglo-Norman buter, boter (“to push, butt, strike”), from Frankish *bautan (“to hit, beat”), from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to beat, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewd- (“to beat, push, strike”). Cognate with Old English bēatan (“to beat”). More at beat.

һөҙөшөү

(intransitive) to strike bluntly with the head

Teacher! He just butted me!

Additionally, kids are pinched, fondled, propositioned, and hit; and it all goes unseen amid the general confusion and nonspecific orders from the cafeteria supervisors who are yelling things like, "Keep it down, you people!" "No butting!" "Wait your turn, boys!" All of which sound as though there is law and order, just no actual justice to the victim.

2016, Chandler, Dan, Bullying in Plain Sight: How Inattentive Adults Encourage the School Bullies, Mustang, O.K.: Tate Publishing and Enterprises, LLC, →ISBN, page 45:

(transitive, intransitive, eastern Canada, parts of the northeastern US) To cut in line (in front of someone).


barrel

From Middle English barel, from Anglo-Norman baril, Old French baril, bareil (“barrel”), of uncertain origin. An attempt to link baril to Old French barre (“bar, bolt”) (compare Medieval Latin barra (“bar, rod”)) via assumed Vulgar Latin *barrīculum meets the phonological requirement, but fails to connect the word semantically. The alternative connection to Frankish *baril, *beril or Gothic *𐌱𐌴𐍂𐌹𐌻𐍃 (*bērils, “container for transport”), from Proto-Germanic *barilaz, *bērilaz (“barrel, jug, container”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry, transport”), is more plausible as it connects not only the form of the word but also the sense; equivalent to bear + -le. Compare also Old High German biril (“jug, large pot”), Luxembourgish Bärel, Bierel (“jug, pot”), Old Norse berill (“barrel for liquids”), Old English byrla (“barrel of a horse, trunk, body”). More at bear.

vat

round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop

(surfing) A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.

tynnyri

surfing: wave that breaks with a hollow compartment


clout

en-noun

clout (countable and uncountable, plural clouts)

From Middle English clout, from Old English clūt, from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gelewdos, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). The sense “influence, especially political” originated in the dialect of Chicago, but has become widespread.
cognates and related terms
Cognate with Old Norse klútr (“kerchief”), Swedish klut, Danish klud, Middle High German klōz (“lump”), whence German Kloß, and dialect Russian глуда (gluda). See also cleat.

der

For kings are clouts that euery man ſhoots at,
Our Crowne the pin that thouſands ſeeke to cleaue.

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iv:

A’ must shoot nearer or he’ll ne’er hit the clout.

c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

(archery) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.


acinaces

From Latin acīnacēs, from Ancient Greek ἀκινάκης (akinákēs, “the short sabre of the Persians, Medes, and Scythians; a scimitar”).


acinaces

la-noun

acīnacēs m (genitive acīnacis); third declension

acīnacēs (canonical masculine)
acīnacis (genitive)
acīnacēs (nominative singular)
acīnacēs (nominative plural)
acīnacis (genitive singular)
acīnacium (genitive plural)
acīnacī (dative singular)
acīnacibus (dative plural)
acīnacem (accusative singular)
acīnacēs (accusative plural)
acīnacīs (accusative plural)
acīnace (ablative singular)
acīnacibus (ablative plural)
acīnacēs (singular vocative)
acīnacēs (plural vocative)

[äˈt͡ʃiːnät͡ʃes]

a sword used by the Persians, a scimitar


laden

de-verb

laden (class 6 strong, third-person singular present lädt, past tense lud, past participle geladen, past subjunctive lüde, auxiliary haben)

lädt (present singular third-person)
lud (past)
geladen (participle past)
lüde (past subjunctive)
haben (auxiliary)
haben (auxiliary)
laden (infinitive)
ladend (participle present)
geladen (participle past)
lade (first-person indicative present singular)
laden (first-person indicative plural present)
lade (first-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
laden (first-person plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
lädst (indicative present second-person singular)
ladet (indicative plural present second-person)
ladest (second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
ladet (plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
lädt (indicative present singular third-person)
laden (indicative plural present third-person)
lade (singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
laden (plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
lud (first-person indicative preterite singular)
luden (first-person indicative plural preterite)
lüde (first-person formal rare singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
lüden (first-person formal plural rare subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
ludest (indicative preterite second-person singular)
ludst (indicative preterite second-person singular)
ludet (indicative plural preterite second-person)
lüdest (formal rare second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
lüdet (formal plural rare second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
lud (indicative preterite singular third-person)
luden (indicative plural preterite third-person)
lüde (formal rare singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
lüden (formal plural rare subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
lad (imperative second-person singular)
lade (imperative second-person singular)
ladet (imperative plural second-person)
haben (auxiliary)
habe geladen (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect singular)
haben geladen (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect plural)
habe geladen (first-person multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive)
haben geladen (first-person multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive)
hast geladen (indicative multiword-construction perfect second-person singular)
habt geladen (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural second-person)
habest geladen (multiword-construction perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
habet geladen (multiword-construction perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
hat geladen (indicative multiword-construction perfect singular third-person)
haben geladen (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural third-person)
habe geladen (multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
haben geladen (multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
hatte geladen (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular)
hatten geladen (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural)
hätte geladen (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive)
hätten geladen (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive)
hattest geladen (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular)
hattet geladen (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person)
hättest geladen (multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
hättet geladen (multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
hatte geladen (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular third-person)
hatten geladen (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural third-person)
hätte geladen (multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
hätten geladen (multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
laden werden (future future-i infinitive multiword-construction)
werde laden (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden laden (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest laden (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet laden (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde laden (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden laden (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde laden (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden laden (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde laden (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden laden (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst laden (future future-i indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet laden (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest laden (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet laden (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird laden (future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden laden (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde laden (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden laden (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
geladen haben werden (future future-ii infinitive multiword-construction)
werde geladen haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden geladen haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest geladen haben (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet geladen haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde geladen haben (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden geladen haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde geladen haben (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden geladen haben (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde geladen haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden geladen haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst geladen haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet geladen haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest geladen haben (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet geladen haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird geladen haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden geladen haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde geladen haben (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden geladen haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)

From Middle High German laden (strong verb), from Old High German hladan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaþan. Compare English laden.

(transitive, intransitive, weaponry) to load (some weapon)


laden

laad (past singular)
laadt (participle past)
laden (participle past)
hebben (auxiliary)
laden (infinitive)
laad (first-person present singular)
laad (first-person preterite singular)
laadst (present second-person singular)
laadst (preterite second-person singular)
laadt (present singular third-person)
laad (preterite singular third-person)
laadt (plural present)
laden (plural preterite)
laad (present singular)
laden (present)
laadt (past)
laden (past)

nds-conj-table

laden (weak verb with strong past participle)

From Middle Low German lāden, from Old Saxon hladan.


charge

en-noun

charge (countable and uncountable, plural charges)

From Middle English chargen, from Old French chargier, from Late Latin carricō (“to load”), from Latin carrus (“a car, wagon”); see car. Doublet of cargo.

(firearms) A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.

to bring a weapon to the charge

(weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.

At about the same time I went off pills and started smoking charge marijuana, you know.

1966, Alan Bestic, Turn Me on Man, page 58:

It had been a false alarm, and £2 worth of charge (marijuana) had gone out of the window.

1970, Sean O'Callaghan, Drug Addiction in Britain, page 51: