toledo

plural toledos

1. A sword or sword blade made at Toledo in Spain, a city famous in the 16th and 17th centuries for the excellence of its weapons.

   A long toledo, vvith a hilt of filigrained ſteel, length of the blade three feet nine inches, finely tapering to a point.

   1786, Francis Grose, “Description of the Plates. Plate XXXIX.”, in A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, […], London: […] S. Hooper, […], →OCLC, page xv

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   Peregrine's weapon entering a kind of net work in the shell of Godfrey's sword, the blade snapped in two, and left him at the mercy of the soldier, who, far from making an insolent use of the victory he had gained, put up his Toledo with great deliberation […].

   1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter XXXI, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume I, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC

   ‘Fair Neophyte, beautiful Christian,’ answered the stranger, with a diabolical sneer, ‘be it known to you that I regard bolts, and bars, and walls, as much as I did the breakers and rocks of your Indian isle—that I can go where, and retire when I please, without leave asked or taken of your brother’s mastiffs, or Toledos, or spring-guns, and in utter defiance of your mother’s advanced guard of duennas, armed in spectacles, and flanked with a double ammunition of rosaries, with beads as large as—’

   1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 274

1. A city in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
2. A province of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
3. The southernmost district of Belize.
4. Numerous places in the Philippines:
   1. A barangay of Ramos, Tarlac, Philippines.
   2. A barangay of Silang, Cavite, Philippines.
   3. A barangay of Nabas, Aklan, Philippines.
   4. A city in Cebu, Philippines.
5. Numerous places in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Charlton County, Georgia.
   2. A village, the county seat of Cumberland County, Illinois.
   3. A city, the county seat of Tama County, Iowa.
   4. A township in Tama County, Iowa.
   5. An unincorporated community and township in Chase County, Kansas.
   6. An unincorporated community in Callaway County, Missouri.
   7. An unincorporated community in Ozark County, Missouri.
   8. A large city and county seat of Lucas County, Ohio.
   9. A city in Lincoln County, Oregon.
   10. A minor city in Lewis County, Washington.
6. A surname from Spanish [in turn transferred from the place name].