Walrus vs Sword - What's the difference?
walrus | sword |
(countable) A large Arctic marine mammal related to seals and having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, .
(weaponry) A long-bladed weapon having a handle and sometimes a hilt and designed to stab, hew, or slice.
* 1591 , William Shakespeare, Henry VI , Part III, Act II, Scene II, line 59.
* 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 49.
Someone paid to handle a sword.
(tarot) A suit in the minor arcana in tarot.
(tarot) A card of this suit.
(weaving) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.
As nouns the difference between walrus and sword
is that walrus is a large Arctic marine mammal related to seals and having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, species: Odobenus rosmarus while sword is a long-bladed weapon having a handle and sometimes a hilt and designed to stab, hew, or slice.walrus
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(wikipedia walrus)Noun
Synonyms
* morse (obsolete) * sea horse (rare)Usage notes
The hypercorrect plurals walri and walrii, based on a faulty assumption that the word derives from a Latin noun of the second declension, are generally considered to be nonstandard.See also
* seal * sea lion, sealion English nouns with irregular plurals ----sword
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Unsheathe your sword and dub him presently.
- Some swords were also made solely to thrust, and some only to cut; others were equally adapted for both.
