whinyard

W4H4I1N1Y4A1R1D2

noun

A sword, especially a hanger.

OriginOld English winn →
Scrabble 18
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Meanings

nounwhinyard (plural whinyards)

plural whinyards

  1. obsoleteA 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

Origin

  1. Old Englishwinn“contention, war”
  2. Englishwhinyard

Compare English dialect and Scots whingar, whinger; perhaps from Old English winn (“contention, war”) + geard, gyrd (“a staff, rod, yard”); or compare Old English [Term?] (“whistle”, verb), English whine.

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APA

whinyard. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whinyard

MLA

“whinyard.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whinyard. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “whinyard,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whinyard.

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