bombard

English: bombard

Scots: bombard


bal

English: ball

Scots: baw, ba, baa, ball

Yola: ball, balbeedhel

Inherited from Old English *beall, from Proto-West Germanic *ballu, from Proto-Germanic *balluz.

(rare, vulgar) One's testes (compare to the much more frequent Modern English sense)


dart

English: dart

→ Dutch: dart

→ German: Dart

Scots: dart, dairt; dard

From Old French dart, dard, from Medieval Latin dardus, from Frankish *darōþu, from Proto-Germanic *darōþuz.

A hand-thrown spear or missile; a javelin.


bat

English: bat, batt

Scots: bat

Yola: bath, bat

→ Irish: bata

→ Scottish Gaelic: bata

From Old English batt, from Celtic; influenced by Old French batte.

A mace, bat, or morningstar (blunt weapon)


blade

English: blade

Scots: blad, blade, blaud, blaid

From Old English blæd, from Proto-West Germanic *blad, from Proto-Germanic *bladą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥h₃otom.

Any sharp-bladed slashing or stabbing weapon.


sword

enm-noun

sword (plural swordes or (early) sweorden)

English: sword

Scots: swerd, sword

From Old English sword, a Mercian form of sweord (which some forms are directly from), from Proto-West Germanic *swerd, from Proto-Germanic *swerdą.


launce

English: lance, launce

Scots: lance

From Old French lance, from Latin lancea.

(rare) A lancer; someone armed with a lance.


tool

English: tool

Scots: tuil

From Old English tōl, from Proto-Germanic *tōlą.

(rare) A device used for torturing or interrogration.


ax

English: axe, ax

Scots: aix

From Old English æx, æcs, from Proto-West Germanic *akusi.


ax

From Old English eax, from Proto-Germanic *ahsu.


naked

English: naked

Scots: nakit

From Old English nacod, from Proto-Germanic *nakwadaz. Compare naken.

Of a melee weapon; lacking a hilt or sheath; openly carried or readied.

(often with an item specified) Having none of something; bare of a thing or quality:

Having no armour or weapons; unequipped for battle.


canon

English: cannon

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From Middle French canon, from Italian cannone, from Latin canna, from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na).


instrument

English: instrument

Borrowed from Old French instrument, from Latin instrūmentum (“tool, device”).

A tool or device used for manipulation, especially for medical and scientific uses.

A device used to produce music; a musical instrument.

A body part that performs a certain function; an organ.


muscle

English: muscle

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From Middle French muscle, from Latin mūsculus (“muscle”).


quiver

English: quiver

From Anglo-Norman quivre, from Old Dutch cocare; perhaps ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür or Hunnic. Doublet of coker.


quiver

English: quiver

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


brand

English: brand

Scots: brand

Yola: broan, brone, brand

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


mace

English: mace

Scots: mace

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


sax

English: sax; zax

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

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


dint

English: dent, dint, dunt

Scots: dunt, dont, dynt, dint, dent

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

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


corde

English: cord; chord (influenced by Latin spelling)

Scots: cord

From Old French corde, from Latin chorda, from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ).

One of the strings of a string instrument.


egged

English: edged

From Old English ecged; equivalent to egge (“edge”) + -ed.

(in compounds) Having an edge of a certain type.


hache

Borrowed from Old French hache, from Frankish *happjā, from Proto-Germanic *hapjǭ.


hache

Borrowed from Old French haschiee, hachïe.


delen

delen (infinitive)
to delen (infinitive)
dele (infinitive)
dele (first-person present singular)
delte (first-person past singular)
delde (first-person past singular)
deled (first-person past singular)
delest (present second-person singular)
deltest (past second-person singular)
deldest (past second-person singular)
deledest (past second-person singular)
deleth (present singular third-person)
delte (past singular third-person)
delde (past singular third-person)
deled (past singular third-person)
dele (present singular subjunctive)
delte (past singular subjunctive)
delde (past singular subjunctive)
deled (past singular subjunctive)
dele (imperative present singular)
delen (plural present)
dele (plural present)
delten (past plural)
delte (past plural)
delden (past plural)
delde (past plural)
deleden (past plural)
delede (past plural)
deleth (imperative plural present)
dele (imperative plural present)
delynge (participle present)
delende (participle present)
delt (participle past)
deld (participle past)
deled (participle past)
ydelt (participle past)
ydeld (participle past)

English: deal

Scots: dele, deil

Yola: ee-delt (ppl.)

From Old English dǣlan, from Proto-Germanic *dailijaną; equivalent to del + -en (infinitival suffix).

(rare) To discern; to be able to tell apart.

To separate or split; to deal out:
To discern; to be able to tell apart.


helve

English: helve

Scots: helf

From Old English hielfe, from Proto-West Germanic *halbī.


skene

English: skean, skene, skeyn

Borrowed from Middle Irish scian, from Old Irish scían, from Proto-Celtic *skiyenā; compare Middle Welsh ysgien. This word was borrowed late enough for the orthographic final vowel to be illusory.

(Late Middle English, rare) skean (kind of dagger)


gare

Alternative form of gore (“patch (of land, fabric), clothes”)


broche

English: broach, brooch

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Scots: broach, brutch, bruch, broche, brotch

Borrowed from Old French broche, from Vulgar Latin *brocca, from Latin broccus.

A spear or pike; a weapon for impalement.


spere

English: spear

Scots: spere, speir

Inherited from Old English spere, from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru.


poudre

English: powder (see there for further descendants)

Scots: pouder, pouther

→ Welsh: powdr, powdwr, pwdr

From Old French poudre, ultimately from Latin pulvis.

powder (a collection of particles):
(rare) Gunpowder; black powder.

powder (a collection of particles):
Gunpowder; black powder.


culter

obsolete <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">culter</i>

English: colter, coulter (obsolete culter)

Scots: couter, cooter

Inherited from Old English culter, from Latin culter, of unclear origin. Forms with final /ə/ may be due to influence from Old French coutre or due to an Old English ō-stem by-form.


sowel

English: sole (dialectal)

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Inherited from Old English sāgol, sāgel, from Proto-West Germanic *saigul.

A stake with a sharp end (used for fence-building)


gunner

English: gunner

Scots: gunner

→ Medieval Latin: gunnārius

From gunne + -er; compare Medieval Latin gunnārius.


coker

English: cocker, cogger

From Old English cocer, cocur, from Proto-Germanic *kukur-; perhaps ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür or Hunnic. Doublet of quiver.

(rare) A quiver (a receptacle for arrows)


armure

English: armor, armour, armure

Scots: armour

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman armure, armeüre, from Latin armātūra.


staf

enm-noun

staf (plural staves or staven or staffes)

staves (plural)
staven (plural)
staffes (plural)

English: staff, stave

Scots: staf, staff

Yola: stheeves (plural)

From Old English stæf, from Proto-West Germanic *stab.

A staff, rod or pole; a relatively long, narrow, and thin object:

A staff used to support one's movement; a crutch.

A blunt or poled weapon; a club or mace.

A bar of a ladder (either vertical or horizontal)


flo

English: flo

From Old English flā, from flān reanalysed as a plural, from Proto-West Germanic *flain, from Proto-Germanic *flainaz. Compare flon.

An arrow, especially one used with a long bow (projectile weapon emitted from a bow)


gunne

English: gun

→ Volapük: gün

Scots: gun

Yola: gooun

→ Middle Irish: gunna

Irish: gunna

Manx: gunn

From Lady Gunilda; a name for a crossbow. More at English gun.

A trebuchet or similar kind of pellet-firing siege engine.

A cannon or other large firearm; a piece of artillery.

A portable handheld firearm; a gun (i.e. a hand cannon).


egge

English: edge

Scots: edge

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Inherited from Old English eċġ, with final vowel levelled in from the oblique cases.

An edge of a blade or instrument; the sharp or effective side of something.

A bladed weapon; a knife, sword, or similar weapon.

The edge or rim of an object, plot of land, or physical feature; the exterior border of something.

The side of a troop or military formation.


sowe

English: sow

Scots: sou

From Old English sūgu, sū, from Proto-West Germanic *sugu. Compare swyn. Use as a term for a siege engine is a semantic loan from Medieval Latin sūs.

A siege engine used to protect assailants.


schaft

English: shaft

Scots: schaft, shaft

Inherited from Old English sċeaft (“shaft”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaft, from Proto-Germanic *skaftaz.

inh+

A missile, projectile, or the shaft of one.


drawen

enm-verb

drawen (third-person singular simple present draweth, present participle drawinge, first-/third-person singular past indicative drogh or drew, past participle drawen)

draweth (present singular third-person)
drawinge (participle present)
drogh (first-person indicative past singular third-person)
drew (first-person indicative past singular third-person)
drawen (participle past)
drawen (infinitive)
to drawen (infinitive)
drawe (infinitive)
drawe (first-person present singular)
drogh (first-person past singular)
drew (first-person past singular)
drawest (present second-person singular)
drowe (past second-person singular)
drewe (past second-person singular)
drogh (past second-person singular)
drew (past second-person singular)
draweth (present singular third-person)
drogh (past singular third-person)
drew (past singular third-person)
drawe (present singular subjunctive)
drowe (past singular subjunctive)
drewe (past singular subjunctive)
drawe (imperative present singular)
drawen (plural present)
drawe (plural present)
drowen (past plural)
drowe (past plural)
drewen (past plural)
drewe (past plural)
draweth (imperative plural present)
drawe (imperative plural present)
drawynge (participle present)
drawende (participle present)
drawen (participle past)
drawe (participle past)
ydrawen (participle past)
ydrawe (participle past)

English: draw

Scots: draw

Yola: dra

From Old English dragan, from Proto-West Germanic *dragan. Many senses are calqued from Latin trahere.

To draw, push, or impel towards (oneself); to attract:


meche

/ˈmɛːt͡ʃ(ə)/

From Old English mǣċe, mēċe, from Proto-West Germanic *mākī, from Proto-Germanic *mēkijaz.


arow

English: arrow

Scots: aerrow, arrae, arow, arowe

From Old English ārwe, earh, from Proto-West Germanic *arhu, from Proto-Germanic *arhwō.

An arrow (projectile weapon emitted from a bow)


pyke

English: pike, peak; pick (in part)

Scots: pike, pick

Yola: pick

From Old English pīc, from Proto-West Germanic *pīk, from Proto-Germanic *pīkaz.

A number of other tools noted for their pointiness.


dinten

dumben (infinitive)
to dumben (infinitive)
dumbe (infinitive)
dumbe (first-person present singular)
dumbed (first-person past singular)
dumbest (present second-person singular)
dumbedest (past second-person singular)
dumbeth (present singular third-person)
dumbed (past singular third-person)
dumbe (present singular subjunctive)
dumbed (past singular subjunctive)
dumbe (imperative present singular)
dumben (plural present)
dumbe (plural present)
dumbeden (past plural)
dumbede (past plural)
dumbeth (imperative plural present)
dumbe (imperative plural present)
dumbynge (participle present)
dumbende (participle present)
dumbed (participle past)
ydumbed (participle past)

English: dint, dent, dunt

Scots: dint, dunt


bowe

English: bow

Scots: bow

→ Middle Welsh: bwa

Welsh: bwa

From Old English boga, from Proto-West Germanic *bogō, in turn from Proto-Germanic *bugô.


slyngen

slyngen (infinitive)
to slyngen (infinitive)
slynge (infinitive)
slynge (first-person present singular)
slang (first-person past singular)
slyngest (present second-person singular)
slunge (past second-person singular)
slang (past second-person singular)
slyngeth (present singular third-person)
slang (past singular third-person)
slynge (present singular subjunctive)
slunge (past singular subjunctive)
slynge (imperative present singular)
slyngen (plural present)
slynge (plural present)
slungen (past plural)
slunge (past plural)
slange (past plural)
slyngeth (imperative plural present)
slynge (imperative plural present)
slyngynge (participle present)
slyngende (participle present)
slungen (participle past)
slunge (participle past)
yslunge (participle past)

English: sling

Scots: sling, slung

Borrowed from Old Norse slyngja, slyngva, from Proto-Germanic *slingwaną.

To use a weapon (especially a sling) to hurl a projectile.


slynge

English: sling

Scots: sling, slung

Possibly from Middle Low German slenge or a back-formation from slyngen.

A sling (strap used to sling projectiles)


hachet

English: hatchet

Yola: hatcheat

Borrowed from Old French hachete; equivalent to hache (“war-axe”) + -et.


sparthe

English: sparth


armurie

English: armory, armoury

From Old French armoierie; equivalent to armure + -ie.


Carlele axe

A sort of axe associated with the city of Carlisle.


knyf

English: knife

Sranan Tongo: nefi

Korean: 나이프 (naipeu)

Portuguese: naifa

Samoan: naifi

Japanese: ナイフ

Scots: knyfe, knife

Yola: kunnife

French: canif

From Old English cnīf, from Old Norse knífr, from Proto-Germanic *knībaz.

A knife as a tool or instrument; the following special senses exist:


clubbe

English: club

From Old Norse klubba, klumba, from Proto-Germanic *klumpô. Doublet of clompe.


flon

English: flone

Scots: flane, flain

From Old English flān, from Proto-West Germanic *flain, from Proto-Germanic *flainaz. Compare flo.

An arrow, especially one used with a long bow (projectile weapon emitted from a bow)


harneys

English: harness

Scots: harnish, herness

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman harneis, from Old Norse *hernest. See Old French hernois.

Gear, tools, implements:
A full set or suit of armour.


harneysen

harneysen (infinitive)
to harneysen (infinitive)
harneyse (infinitive)
harneyse (first-person present singular)
harneysed (first-person past singular)
harneysest (present second-person singular)
harneysedest (past second-person singular)
harneyseth (present singular third-person)
harneysed (past singular third-person)
harneyse (present singular subjunctive)
harneysed (past singular subjunctive)
harneyse (imperative present singular)
harneysen (plural present)
harneyse (plural present)
harneyseden (past plural)
harneysede (past plural)
harneyseth (imperative plural present)
harneyse (imperative plural present)
harneysynge (participle present)
harneysende (participle present)
harneysed (participle past)
yharneysed (participle past)

English: harness

Scots: harnish, herness

From Anglo-Norman harneschier; equivalent to harneys (“gear, equipment”) + -en (infinitival suffix). Some forms are remodelled on harneys.

af

(rare, Late Middle English) To wear clothing or garments.


bladyn

bladyn (infinitive)
to bladyn (infinitive)
blade (infinitive)
blade (first-person present singular)
bladed (first-person past singular)
bladest (present second-person singular)
bladedest (past second-person singular)
bladeth (present singular third-person)
bladed (past singular third-person)
blade (present singular subjunctive)
bladed (past singular subjunctive)
blade (imperative present singular)
bladen (plural present)
blade (plural present)
bladeden (past plural)
bladede (past plural)
bladeth (imperative plural present)
blade (imperative plural present)
bladynge (participle present)
bladende (participle present)
bladed (participle past)
ybladed (participle past)


tronchoun

English: truncheon

From Old French tronchon, from Late Latin *troncionem.

A fragment of something, especially a spear or lance.

The pole of a spear, lance, or similar polearm.


gunnepoudre

English: gunpowder

Scots: gunpoother


ȝerde

English: yard, yerd

Scots: yaird, yeard, yird

Inherited from Old English ġerd, from Proto-West Germanic *gaʀdi, from Proto-Germanic *gazdijō. related to Polish żerdź from Proto-Slavic *žьrdь ("perch, pole, ricker").

A bar or rod; a long, skinny piece of material:

A crutch or staff; a bar used to support something.

A bar used to stop a joint from moving; a splint.

A rod used to represent legitimacy, right, and might.

A yard (unit of length consisting of three feet, often used for fabric)


egge tool

A tool with a sharp edge; an edged tool.


stafslynge

English: staff sling

A staff sling; a sling mounted on a pole.

(rare, Late Middle English) A slinger armed with a staff sling.


slyngynge

The process of slinging projectiles using a sling.


snayle

English: snail

Scots: snail

Inherited from Old English sneġel, from Proto-Germanic *snagilaz, *snigilaz.

(rare, Late Middle English) A kind of contraption used for both offence and defence during a siege.

(rare) A diseased mass of protruding fleshiness.


brochen

brochen (infinitive)
to brochen (infinitive)
broche (infinitive)
broche (first-person present singular)
broched (first-person past singular)
brochest (present second-person singular)
brochedest (past second-person singular)
brocheth (present singular third-person)
broched (past singular third-person)
broche (present singular subjunctive)
broched (past singular subjunctive)
broche (imperative present singular)
brochen (plural present)
broche (plural present)
brocheden (past plural)
brochede (past plural)
brocheth (imperative plural present)
broche (imperative plural present)
brochynge (participle present)
brochende (participle present)
broched (participle past)
ybroched (participle past)

English: broach

Scots: broach

/ˈbrɔːt͡ʃən/

From Old French brochier; equivalent to broche + -en (infinitival suffix).


scorpioun

English: scorpion

Borrowed from Old French scorpion, from Latin scorpiō, from Ancient Greek σκορπῐ́ος (skorpíos); reinforced by existing Old English sċorpio, from the same Latin source.

Someone who practices deception or lewdness.


spere-hed

English: spearhead

(rare) A kind of plant in the genus Ranunculus.


spere schaft

English: spearshaft


hilte

English: hilt

Scots: hilt

From Old English hilt, from Proto-Germanic *heltą (“handle, hilt”).


launcegay

English: lancegay (obsolete)

From Old French lancegaye, from lance (“lance”) + zagaye (“assagai”).

Sire Thopas / wolde out ride / He worth / vpon his steede gray / And in his hand a launcegay / A long swerd / by his side [...].

c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, Sir Thopas (Ellesmere ms)

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culveryne

English: culverin

(Late Middle English, rare) culverin (cannon)


fleyl

desc

dialectal <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">frail</i>

English: flail (dialectal frail)

Scots: flail

Yola: vleal

From Old English *flegel, fligel, from Proto-West Germanic *flagil, probably from Latin flagellum. Possibly a doublet of frayel.


flyngen

flyngen (infinitive)
to flyngen (infinitive)
flynge (infinitive)
flynge (first-person present singular)
flang (first-person past singular)
flyngest (present second-person singular)
flunge (past second-person singular)
flange (past second-person singular)
flang (past second-person singular)
flyngeth (present singular third-person)
flang (past singular third-person)
flynge (present singular subjunctive)
flunge (past singular subjunctive)
flange (past singular subjunctive)
flynge (imperative present singular)
flyngen (plural present)
flynge (plural present)
flungen (past plural)
flunge (past plural)
flangen (past plural)
flange (past plural)
flyngeth (imperative plural present)
flynge (imperative plural present)
flyngynge (participle present)
flyngende (participle present)
flungen (participle past)
flunge (participle past)

English: fling

Scots: fling

Borrowed from Old Norse flengja, from Proto-Germanic *flangijaną. Strong past forms are after the model of dingen, swyngen, and similar verbs.

To fly (move speedily, especially through air).


gunneston

English: gunstone (obsolete)

Scots: gunstane (obsolete)

(Late Middle English) A cannonball; a missile used by a cannon.


gleyve

English: glaive

Scots: glaive

Borrowed from Old French glaive, from Late Latin glā̆vus, of unclear origin.

A lance or spear; a polearm with a blade attached to the head.

Such a polearm set at the finish line of a race and sometimes given as an award.

A glaive or bill; a polearm with a blade attached to the side.


flecche

Either borrowed from Anglo-Norman fleche or a back-formation from fleccher.


fleccher

English: fletcher

Borrowed from Old French flechier; equivalent to flecche + -er.

(chiefly Late Middle English) A fletcher; an arrowmaker.


calketrappe

enm-noun

calketrappe (plural calketrappes or calketrappen)

calketrappes (plural)
calketrappen (plural)

English: caltrop, caltrap (archaic)

Inherited from Old English *calcatræppe (attested as coltetræppe), variant of calcatrippe (“caltrop”), from Medieval Latin calcatrappa, calcatrippa.