Harpe vs Sharpe - What's the difference?
harpe | sharpe |
(Ancient Greece) A type of curved weapon or implement, variously described as a sickle, a pruning hook, or a curved sword like a scimitar. In later depictions it became a combination of a straight sword on one side and a curved blade on the other.
* 19th century , (Jean Ingelow) - The Brides of Enderby
As a noun harpe
is a type of curved weapon or implement, variously described as a sickle, a pruning hook, or a curved sword like a scimitar. In later depictions it became a combination of a straight sword on one side and a curved blade on the other.As an adjective sharpe is
obsolete spelling of lang=en.As a proper noun Sharpe is
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English
(Wikipedia)Etymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun) ----sharpe
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- If it be long ay, long ago,
When I beginne to think howe long,
Againe I hear the Lindis flow,
Swift as an arrowe, sharpe and strong;