Middle English word senses marked with topical category "Weapons"
Parent categories: Hunting, Military, Tools, Human activity, Society, Technology, Human behaviour, Human
Subcategories: Archery, Artillery, Explosives, Firearms, Polearms
Total 123 word senses
- Carlele axe (Proper name) A sort of axe associated with the city of Carlisle.
- armure (Noun) weapons; arms
- armurie (Noun) An armory (a weapons storehouse)
- arow (Noun) An arrow (projectile weapon emitted from a bow)
- ax (Noun) An axe (tool)
- ax (Noun) An axe (weapon)
- ax (Noun) An axle, axletree, pole
- bal (Noun) One's testes (compare to the much more frequent Modern English sense)
- bat (Noun) A mace, bat, or morningstar (blunt weapon)
- blade (Noun) Any sharp-bladed slashing or stabbing weapon.
- blader (Noun) bladesmith
- bladyn (Verb) To give a sharp edge.
- bombard (Noun) cannon, bombard
- bowe (Noun) bow
- bowe (Noun) bowman
- brand (Noun) burning wood or coal
- brand (Noun) sword, blade
- broche (Noun) A spear or pike; a weapon for impalement.
- brochen (Verb) To launch into battle.
- calketrappe (Noun) caltrop (metal spiked object)
- calketrappe (Noun) caltrop (one of various thistly plants)
- canon (Noun) cannon
- clubbe (Noun) An club or baton (heavy blunt weapon)
- coker (Noun) A quiver (a receptacle for arrows)
- corde (Noun) One of the strings of a string instrument.
- culter (Noun) A knife or dagger.
- culveryne (Noun) culverin (cannon)
- dart (Noun) A hand-thrown spear or missile; a javelin.
- delen (Verb) To separate or split; to deal out:; To discern; to be able to tell apart.
- dint (Noun) Warfare, battle; the use of weaponry.
- dinten (Verb) To land a hit on with a weapon.
- dinten (Verb) To use a weapon to land hits.
- dinten (Verb) To impale or pierce.
- drawen (Verb) To draw, push, or impel towards (oneself); to attract:; To lead through a sieve.
- egge (Noun) An edge of a blade or instrument; the sharp or effective side of something.
- egge (Noun) A bladed weapon; a knife, sword, or similar weapon.
- egge (Noun) The edge or rim of an object, plot of land, or physical feature; the exterior border of something.
- egge (Noun) The side of a troop or military formation.
- egge tool (Noun) A tool with a sharp edge; an edged tool.
- egged (Adjective) Having an edge of a certain type.
- flecche (Noun) An arrow.
- fleccher (Noun) A fletcher; an arrowmaker.
- fleyl (Noun) A flail (tool for threshing grain)
- flo (Noun) An arrow, especially one used with a long bow (projectile weapon emitted from a bow)
- flon (Noun) An arrow, especially one used with a long bow (projectile weapon emitted from a bow)
- flyngen (Verb) To fly (move speedily, especially through air).
- gare (Noun) Alternative form of gor (“spear”)
- gare (Noun) Alternative form of gore (“patch (of land, fabric), clothes”)
- gleyve (Noun) A lance or spear; a polearm with a blade attached to the head.
- gleyve (Noun) Such a polearm set at the finish line of a race and sometimes given as an award.
- gleyve (Noun) A glaive or bill; a polearm with a blade attached to the side.
- gunne (Noun) A trebuchet or similar kind of pellet-firing siege engine.
- gunne (Noun) A cannon or other large firearm; a piece of artillery.
- gunne (Noun) A portable handheld firearm; a gun (i.e. a hand cannon).
- gunne (Noun) A projectile.
- gunnepoudre (Noun) gunpowder
- gunner (Noun) An operator of a siege engine.
- gunneston (Noun) A cannonball; a missile used by a cannon.
- hache (Noun) A war axe; an axe used as a weapon.
- hache (Noun) An axe used as a tool.
- hache (Noun) sorrow, distress.
- hache (Noun) Alternative form of hacche
- hachet (Noun) A hatchet; a light axe or a tomahawk.
- harneys (Noun) Gear, tools, implements:; A full set or suit of armour.
- harneysen (Verb) To wear clothing or garments.
- helve (Noun) helve (grip of an implement)
- hilte (Noun) hilt (handle of a sword)
- instrument (Noun) A tool or device used for manipulation, especially for medical and scientific uses.
- instrument (Noun) A device used to produce music; a musical instrument.
- instrument (Noun) A body part that performs a certain function; an organ.
- instrument (Noun) The human body as a whole.
- knyf (Noun) A knife as a tool or instrument; the following special senses exist:; A kitchen knife.
- launce (Noun) A lance (long spear).
- launce (Noun) A javelin (throwing spear).
- launce (Noun) A lancer; someone armed with a lance.
- launcegay (Noun) A light lance.
- mace (Noun) A war club or mace.
- meche (Noun) sword
- muscle (Noun) muscle
- naked (Adjective) Uncovered; exposed, visible:; Of a melee weapon; lacking a hilt or sheath; openly carried or readied.
- naked (Adjective) Having none of something; bare of a thing or quality:; Having no armour or weapons; unequipped for battle.
- poudre (Noun) powder (a collection of particles):; Gunpowder; black powder.
- pyke (Noun) A number of other tools noted for their pointiness.
- quiver (Noun) A quiver (a receptacle for arrows)
- quiver (Adjective) fast, speedy, rapid
- quiver (Adjective) energetic, vigourous, vibrant
- sax (Noun) a knife (tool)
- sax (Noun) a knife (weapon)
- schaft (Noun) A missile, projectile, or the shaft of one.
- scorpioun (Noun) Someone who practices deception or lewdness.
- skene (Noun) skean (kind of dagger)
- slynge (Noun) A sling (strap used to sling projectiles)
- slyngen (Verb) To use a weapon (especially a sling) to hurl a projectile.
- slyngynge (Noun) The process of slinging projectiles using a sling.
- snayle (Noun) A snail or slug (gastropod)
- snayle (Noun) A kind of contraption used for both offence and defence during a siege.
- snayle (Noun) A diseased mass of protruding fleshiness.
- sowe (Noun) A siege engine used to protect assailants.
- sowel (Noun) A stake with a sharp end (used for fence-building)
- sparthe (Noun) battle-axe
- spere (Noun) The Lance of Longinus.
- spere schaft (Noun) Such a shaft used as a unit of measure.
- spere-hed (Noun) A kind of plant in the genus Ranunculus.
- staf (Noun) A staff, rod or pole; a relatively long, narrow, and thin object:; A staff used to support one's movement; a crutch.
- staf (Noun) A staff, rod or pole; a relatively long, narrow, and thin object:; A blunt or poled weapon; a club or mace.
- staf (Noun) A staff, rod or pole; a relatively long, narrow, and thin object:; A bar of a ladder (either vertical or horizontal)
- stafslynge (Noun) A staff sling; a sling mounted on a pole.
- stafslynge (Noun) A slinger armed with a staff sling.
- sword (Noun) sword, sabre
- swynge (Verb) Alternative form of swyngen
- tool (Noun) A tool, implement, or instrument.
- tool (Noun) An instrument of war; an armament.
- tool (Noun) A device used for torturing or interrogration.
- tool (Noun) Alternative form of toll.
- tronchoun (Noun) A fragment of something, especially a spear or lance.
- tronchoun (Noun) The pole of a spear, lance, or similar polearm.
- tronchoun (Noun) A truncheon (staff or cudgel)
- tronchoun (Noun) A treetrunk.
- ȝerde (Noun) A bar or rod; a long, skinny piece of material:; A crutch or staff; a bar used to support something.
- ȝerde (Noun) A bar or rod; a long, skinny piece of material:; A baton; a bar used as a blunt weapon.
- ȝerde (Noun) A bar or rod; a long, skinny piece of material:; A bar used to stop a joint from moving; a splint.
- ȝerde (Noun) A bar or rod; a long, skinny piece of material:; A rod used to represent legitimacy, right, and might.
- ȝerde (Noun) A yard (unit of length consisting of three feet, often used for fabric)
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