Seax

//ˈsiːks// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A short Saxon sword. historical

    "The Pugio or Dagger was used by the Romans, a species of that weapon called the Hand Seax was worn by the Saxons, with which they massacred the English on Salisbury Plain in 476."

  2. 2
    a type of sword or dagger typical of the Germanic peoples of the Migration period and the Early Middle Ages, especially the Saxons. wordnet

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"The Pugio or Dagger was used by the Romans, a species of that weapon called the Hand Seax was worn by the Saxons, with which they massacred the English on Salisbury Plain in 476."

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old English seax (“dagger”). Doublet of sax and zax.

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