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poniard

VERB
  1. stab with a poniard
NOUN
  1. a dagger with a slender blade

How To Use poniard In A Sentence

  • As soon as the horses had obtained some food and repose, Sir Philip also returned, and Emily was left, with a woman who felt at her heart that she could have poniarded her not an hour before. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851
  • His companion was unhandily trimming branches from a pine bole, using an ivory-handled poniard.
  • In Twenty Years After, by Dumas, when M. de Beaufort removes the poniard from the pie and says, “I hold one of these poniards to La Remee’s heart and say to him, ‘My friend, I am truly distressed, but if you make any movement or utter a cry, you are a dead man.’” A Bland and Deadly Courtesy
  • Looking down, he saw a poniard held steadily in Sergeant Kuke's hand. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
  • She watched him strap on the scabbard and long poniard.
  • A Venetian nobleman, who had, on some late occasion, provoked the hatred of Orsino, had been way-laid and poniarded by hired assassins: and, as the murdered person was of the first connections, the Senate had taken up the affair. The Mysteries of Udolpho
  • Abidan, unarmed, seized a poniard from the soldier’s belt, stabbed him to the heart, and vaulting on the steed, galloped towards the river. Chapter 7 - Part IX
  • These they raised in salute and through the portal strode a dwarf huge as Rador, dressed as he and carrying only the poniard that was the badge of office of Muria’s captainry. The Moon Pool
  • Drunk! odds blades and poniards, he that would refuse to swallow a dozen healths on such an evening is a base besognio, and a puckfoist, and shall swallow six inches of my dagger! Kenilworth
  • While he was getting in; the unhappy bailli said there was a shorter way of escaping from trouble, and stabbed himself twice with a poniard. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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