Whinyard
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A sword, especially a hanger. obsolete
"It is not a necessary inference that he was wounded, though she says they struck him over her shoulder with whinyards; their object, undoubtedly, was to get him out of the queen's presence in the first place."
- 2 The shoveler, a type of duck. UK, dialectal, obsolete
- 3 The pochard, a type of duck. UK, dialectal, obsolete
Example
More examples"It is not a necessary inference that he was wounded, though she says they struck him over her shoulder with whinyards; their object, undoubtedly, was to get him out of the queen's presence in the first place."
Etymology
Compare English dialect and Scots whingar, whinger; perhaps from Old English winn (“contention, war”) + geard, gyrd (“a staff, rod, yard”); or compare Old English [Term?] (“whistle”, verb), English whine.
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