Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
falchion .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
falchion .
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- noun Alternative form of
falchion .
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Examples
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With Nelson for her faulchion keen, and her buckler Billy Blue.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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But the Trumpetter in that shippe plucked foorth his faulchion and stepped to the Pilote at the helme, and vowed that if he did not speedily put off to the English Fleete, and so take part with them, he would presently kill him: which the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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_That you ever must dread from his faulchion a blow_.
A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow Thomas James Wise 1898
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I turned to him, what while he girt his faulchion on, and said,
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II Anonymous 1879
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With Nelson for her faulchion keen, and her buckler Billy Blue.
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Then seeing that Vikhor was perfectly enfeebled, he snatched from him his keen faulchion, and with a single blow struck off his head.
Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore William Ralston Shedden Ralston 1858
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They had also greaves and helmets, and at their girdles a short faulchion, as large as a
The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1844
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That you ever must dread from his faulchion a blow.
Little Engel a ballad with a series of epigrams from the Persian George Henry Borrow 1842
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In his fell hand uptakes he both faulchion and knife,
Proud Signild and Other Ballads George Henry Borrow 1842
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After all this curious erudition, the rough but skilful Ritson inhumanly triumphed by dissolving the magical fancies of the more elegant Warton, by explaining a _Faucon brode_ to be nothing more than a _broad faulchion_, which, in a duel, was certainly more useful than a _bird_.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807
milosrdenstvi commented on the word faulchion
A sort of sword (see falchion. Almost qualifies for my "Words with aunch in them", but not quite.
December 5, 2009
bilby commented on the word faulchion
Just put it on your "Words beginning with faulch-" list.
December 5, 2009