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poniard

/ˈpɒnjəd/US/ˈpɑnjɚd/

poniard noun: a dagger typically having a slender square or triangular blade.

Noun

poniard (plural poniards)

  1. (historical) A dagger typically having a slender square or triangular blade.
    • The sir King ha's wag'd with him six Barbary horses, / against the which he impon'd as I take it, sixe French / Rapiers and Poniards, with their assignes, as Girdle, / Hangers or so[…].c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
    • You yeoman phevvterer, conduct mee to / The Lady of the manſion, or my poniard / Shall diſemboge thy ſoule.c. 1621–1623 (date written), Philip Massinger, The Maid of Honour. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1632, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, signatures D2, verso – D3, recto

Verb

poniard (third-person singular simple present poniards, present participle poniarding, simple past and past participle poniarded)

  1. To stab with a poniard.
    • Manfred […] would have poignarded the peasant in their arms.1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, section I

poniard meaning in Urdu, Kannada and Persian

poniard in Urdu

خنجر

poniard in Kannada

ಕುತ್ತುಬಾಳು

poniard in Persian

dagger
شوشکه šuške

Examples of poniard in a sentence

  • On this occasion I said nothing, but concealing his poniard in my clothes, I hasted up the mountain, determined to execute my purpose […].1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
  • The gaunt men carried swords and daggers with a new familiarity, and even the women had poniards belted at their waists.2003, Christopher Paolini, “Dragon Tales”, in Eragon, pages 22-23:

Forms of poniard

Noun
pluralponiards
alternative formpoignard
alternative formpoinard
alternative formpoynard
alternative formpunierd
Verb
third-person singular presentponiards
present participleponiarding
past participleponiarded
pastponiarded

Origin of poniard

Borrowed from Middle French poignard (whence -ard), from poing (“fist”), from Old French poing, from Latin pugnus (“fist”).

Questions about poniard

What does poniard mean?
Poniard means a dagger typically having a slender square or triangular blade.
What is poniard in Urdu?
Poniard in Urdu is خنجر. See Poniard meaning in Urdu.
How do you use poniard in a sentence?
On this occasion I said nothing, but concealing his poniard in my clothes, I hasted up the mountain, determined to execute my purpose […].
What part of speech is poniard?
Poniard can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce poniard?
Poniard is pronounced /ˈpɒnjəd/ (UK).
What is the plural of poniard?
The plural of poniard is poniards.

Words near poniard in the dictionary

  1. pongy
  2. pongyi
  3. pongyis
  4. ponhaws
  5. PONI
  6. poniard
  7. poniarded
  8. poniarding
  9. poniards
  10. Poniatowski
  11. Poniatowskis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: poniard (page history and authors); poniard (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); poniard (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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