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wakadash

wakadash is the obsolete form of wakizashi.

Meaning of wakizashi

Noun

wakizashi (plural wakizashi or wakizashis)

  1. A traditional Japanese shortsword, typically 30cm to 60cm (or nearly 12 inches to approx. 23.6 inches) in length, often used as a secondary weapon to a katana.
    • Hiro shoves Reason back into the zodiac, jumps in, and starts the motor. He doesn’t have time to untie the boat from the pontoon, so he snaps through the line with his wakizashi and takes off.1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 384

Forms of wakadash

pluralwakadashes

Questions about wakadash

What is wakadash the obsolete form of?
Wakadash is the obsolete form of wakizashi.

Words near wakadash in the dictionary

  1. waka-jumper
  2. waka-jumpers
  3. waka-jumping
  4. wakabayashilite
  5. wakable
  6. wakadash
  7. wakadashes
  8. wakaf
  9. wakafs
  10. wakagashira
  11. wakaimonogashira

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wakadash (page history and authors); wakizashi (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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