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scimitar
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scimiter \Scim"i*ter\, Scimitar \Scim"i*tar\, n. [F. cimeterre, cf. It. scimitarra, Sp. cimitarra; fr. Biscayan cimetarra with a sharp edge; or corrupted from Per. shimsh[=i]r.]
A saber with a much curved blade having the edge on the convex side, -- in use among Mohammedans, esp., the Arabs and persians. [Written also cimeter, and scymetar.]
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A long-handled billhook. See Billhook.
Scimiter pods (Bot.), the immense curved woody pods of a leguminous woody climbing plant ( Entada scandens) growing in tropical India and America. They contain hard round flattish seeds two inches in diameter, which are made into boxes.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, cimiterie, from Middle French cimeterre (15c.) or Italian scimitarra, of uncertain origin. Turkish would be the expected source, but no such word has been found there. Perhaps from Persian shimshir (pronounced "shamsher," compare Greek sampsera "a barbarian sword," from this source), but OED finds this "unsatisfactory as to form." Many early variations; the modern spelling is from influence of the Italian form of the word. Century Dictionary (1902) has simitar as preferred spelling.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A sword of Persian origin that features a curved blade. 2 A long-handled billhook.
WordNet
n. a curved oriental saber; the edge is on the convex side of the blade
Wikipedia
A scimitar is a type of sword.
Scimitar may also refer to:
Scimitar is a supervillain in the Marvel Comics.
Scimitar is a master of bladed weapons who serves Master Khan.
A scimitar ( or ) is a backsword or sabre with a curved blade, originating in the Middle East.
The curved sword or "scimitar" was widespread throughout the Middle East from at least the Ottoman period, with early examples dating to Abbasid era (9th century) Khurasan. The type harks back to the makhaira type of antiquity, but the Arabic term saif is probably from the same source as Greek xiphos (the straight, double-edged sword of Greek antiquity). The Persian sword now called " shamshir" appears by the 12th century and was popularized in Persia by the early 16th century, and had a "relative" in the Mughal Empire (the talwar).
Usage examples of "scimitar".
Where Xing, Thad and the Arachnos had been, there hovered a group of small things, each like a cross between a scimitar and a wasp.
He drew his jewel-encrusted scimitar and stormed to where Asteria crouched in terror and fury.
He girded on his scimitar and looked out toward those accursed Lasithi mountains.
Instantly the room was full six feet up the wall of a tangle and mass of weapons, swords, spears, arrows, tomahawks, fowling pieces, blunderbusses, pistols, revolvers, scimitars, kreeses every kind of weapon you can think of and the four children wedged in among all these weapons of death hardly dared to breathe.
The army consisted of a magnificent band that also did duty on the stage, where it was quite pleasant to see the worthy fellows marching in Turkish dresses with rouge on and wooden scimitars, or as Roman warriors with ophicleides and trombones--to see them again, I say, at night, after one had listened to them all the morning in the Aurelius Platz, where they performed opposite the cafe where we breakfasted.
Fatma, a cobra which was really an iron spring -- it throbbed and jumped and burred on the Moorish coffee table if you touched it, a Rif saddle, a hubble-bubble, scimitars and daggers on the walls.
Knives of every size, brief poinards, broadswords, even elaborate scimitars and snees, bristled among them.
As he walked through the Vier Marchi with his officers, there flashed before his eyes the scene of sixteen years ago, when, through the grime and havoc of battle, he had run to save Guida from the scimitar of the garish Turk.
As he sprinted across the wide kitchen, he saw the Nubian, Yair, draw his scimitar and launch himself into the fray.
Flee into the woods, at such times, or earlier, before the mighty scimitar or yataghan leaps from its scabbard.
He arced the scimitar into the neck of a burly Automaton, then pivoted to slice his blade into the head of a deranged woman.
The barghest recognized the explosive rage in this drow and had felt the sharp bite of the scimitar.
With a sharp snap the rusty scimitar broke, leaving her to stare in disbelief at the bladeless hilt in her hands.
As a colonel in the bodyguard of Bleyn the Pious, he had taken a scimitar blow in the face.
Severgard more tightly, she ran toward him as he brandished his scimitar in defiance.