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goedendag

goedendag noun: a club with a spike on top, used as a weapon by the militias of medieval Flanders.

Noun

goedendag (plural goedendags)

  1. (historical) A club with a spike on top, used as a weapon by the militias of medieval Flanders.
    • In the centre of the depiction there is a soldier with a goedendag. To the far right the bearer of the wine carriers' banner can be seen armed with a special sword that is very wide and ends in a sharp point, a falchion.2002, J. F. Verbruggen, The Battle of the Golden Spurs (Courtrai, 11 July 1302): A Contribution to the History of Flanders' War of Liberation, 1297-1305, Boydell & Brewer, →ISBN, page 203
    • […] 1302, in which Flemish farmers and civilians armed with goedendags stand in battle formation. The goedendags resemble long clubs, but they have a much wider beating ring around the top and it is possible that a daring combatant […]2010, Jan Piet Puype, Harm Stevens, Arms and Armour of Knights and Landsknechts in the Netherlands Army Museum, Eburon Uitgeverij B.V., →ISBN, page 245

Examples of goedendag in a sentence

  • A buckler cost £1 and a goedendag cost 10 shillings.2010, Randall Fegley, The Golden Spurs of Kortrijk: How the Knights of France Fell to the Foot Soldiers of Flanders in 1302, McFarland...
  • As it was he was fighting the blue-blooded French knights on foot armed with a weapon called a goedendag.2019, Harry Pearson, The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman: A Bone-shaking Tour through Cycling’s Flemish Heartlands, Bloomsbury...

Forms of goedendag

pluralgoedendags

Questions about goedendag

What does goedendag mean?
Goedendag means a club with a spike on top, used as a weapon by the militias of medieval Flanders.
How do you use goedendag in a sentence?
A buckler cost £1 and a goedendag cost 10 shillings.
What part of speech is goedendag?
Goedendag is a noun.
What is the plural of goedendag?
The plural of goedendag is goedendags.

Words near goedendag in the dictionary

  1. Goedde
  2. Goeddes
  3. Goede
  4. Goedel
  5. Goeden
  6. goedendag
  7. goedendags
  8. Goedens
  9. Goedert
  10. Goederts
  11. Goedes

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