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scramasax

scramasax noun: per the prefix, assumed to have been a weaponized (offensive) form of sax (a type of machete (broadly speaking) used by the early medieval Germanic tribes such as the Anglo-Saxons, Franks and the Norse, etc); a large combat knife.

scramasax: per the prefix, assumed to have been a weaponized (offensive) form of sax (a type of machete...
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Noun

scramasax (plural scramasaxes)

  1. (historical) Per the prefix, assumed to have been a weaponized (offensive) form of sax (a type of machete (broadly speaking) used by the early medieval Germanic tribes such as the Anglo-Saxons, Franks and the Norse, etc); a large combat knife.

Forms of scramasax

pluralscramasaxes
alternative formscramaseax

Origin of scramasax

Borrowed from Old English scramasax, compound of scrama (“causing injury?”) + sax (“machete type knife”). The exact meaning of scrama is unclear, but cognates have the sense “(cut) wound, scratch, scar” (see Old Norse skráma, German Schramme), likely related to the root of scar (“cut mark”), score (“cut groove”), Old Norse skora (“scoring, notching”), Old Norse skǽra (“cutting, slicing”).

Questions about scramasax

What does scramasax mean?
Scramasax means per the prefix, assumed to have been a weaponized (offensive) form of sax (a type of machete (broadly speaking) used by the early medieval Germanic tribes such as the Anglo-Saxons, Franks and the Norse, etc); a large combat knife.
What part of speech is scramasax?
Scramasax is a noun.
What is the plural of scramasax?
The plural of scramasax is scramasaxes.

Words near scramasax in the dictionary

  1. scraight
  2. scraighted
  3. scraighting
  4. scraights
  5. scram
  6. scramasax
  7. scramasaxes
  8. scramaseax
  9. scramaseaxes
  10. scramb
  11. scrambed

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