| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| poniard |
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| SYLLABICATION: | pon·iard |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  p n y rd |
| NOUN: | A dagger typically having a slender square or triangular blade. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: pon·iard·ed, pon·iard·ing, pon·iards
To stab with such a dagger. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French poignard, from poing, fist, from Old French, from Latin pugnus. See peuk- in Appendix I.
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