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whiniard

whiniard is the obsolete form of whinyard.

Meaning of whinyard

Noun

whinyard (plural whinyards)

  1. (obsolete) A sword, especially a hanger.
    • 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.1905, John Hill Burton, The History of Scotland from Agricola's Invasion to the Extinction of the Last Jacobite Insurrection, volume 4

Forms of whiniard

pluralwhiniards

Questions about whiniard

What is whiniard the obsolete form of?
Whiniard is the obsolete form of whinyard.

Words near whiniard in the dictionary

  1. whingles
  2. whingling
  3. whings
  4. whingy
  5. Whinham
  6. whiniard
  7. whiniards
  8. whinier
  9. whiniest
  10. whinily
  11. whinin'

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