scimitar

plural scimitars · alternative archaic simitar · alternative obsolete cimeter · alternative obsolete cimiter · alternative obsolete cymeter · alternative obsolete scimetar · alternative obsolete scimiter · alternative obsolete semitar

1. A sword of Persian origin that features a curved blade.

   Next door is a room devoted to Albanian history (“what a lovely scimitar,” I find myself exclaiming, my reserves of small talk inadequate at the sight of the family’s sword collection),[…]

   2022 April 12, Helen Lewis, “Among Europe’s Ex-Royals”, in The Atlantic

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   The Prince of Morocco: […]By this Symitare, That ſlew the Sophie, and a Perſian Prince That won three fields of Sultan Solyman, I would ore-ſtare the ſterneſt eies that looke, Out-braue the heart moſt daring on the earth: Plucke the yong ſucking Cubs from the ſhe Beare, Yea, mocke the Lion when he rors for pray To win the Ladie. […]

   c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 167, columns 1–2

2. A long-handled billhook.

present singular third person scimitars · participle present scimitaring · participle past scimitared · past scimitared · alternative archaic simitar · alternative obsolete cimeter · alternative obsolete cimiter · alternative obsolete cymeter · alternative obsolete scimetar · alternative obsolete scimiter · alternative obsolete semitar

1. transitiveTo strike or slice with, or as if with, a scimitar.