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Stiletto vs Poniard - What's the difference?

stiletto | poniard |

As nouns the difference between stiletto and poniard

is that stiletto is a short sharp knife or dagger-like weapon intended for stabbing while poniard is a dagger typically having a slender square or triangular blade.

As verbs the difference between stiletto and poniard

is that stiletto is to attack or kill with a stiletto (dagger) while poniard is to stab with a poniard.

As an adjective stiletto

is sharp and narrow like a stiletto.

stiletto

English

(wikipedia stiletto)

Noun

  • A short sharp knife or dagger-like weapon intended for stabbing.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=“There the cause of death was soon ascertained?; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto , which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”}}
  • A rapier.
  • An awl.
  • A woman's shoe with a tall, slender heel (stiletto heel).
  • A beard trimmed into a pointed form.
  • * Ford
    • The very quack of fashions, the very he that / Wears a stiletto on his chin.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Sharp and narrow like a stiletto.

    • Derived terms

    * stiletto heel

    Verb

  • To attack or kill with a stiletto (dagger).
    • ----

    poniard

    English

    Alternative forms

    * poignard * poynard * punierd

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A dagger typically having a slender square or triangular blade.
  • * 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) ,
    • She speaks poniards , and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her; she would infect to the north star.
  • * c. 1601 , (William Shakespeare), , V.1:
    • The sir King ha's wag'd with him six Barbary horses, / against the which he impon'd as I take it, sixe French / Rapiers and Poniards , with their assignes, as Girdle, / Hangers or so.
  • *, II.29:
    • A Poynard is more sure to wound a man, which forsomuch as it requireth more motion and vigor of the arme, than a pistol, it's stroke is more subject to be hindred or avoyded.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To stab with a poniard.

    • Related terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) ((l))

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