whinyard

In The Bride of Lammermoor (Chapter VI) Bucklaw vows, "I will chop them off with my whinger," and one feels quite let down when he learns that a whinger is but a whinyard, which is merely a short sword.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3 1984

Mr. Payne renders “Sharít” by whinyard: it must be a chopper-like weapon, with a pin or screw

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Here he was interrupted by his asthma, but, nevertheless, continued to interpose his person between Colepepper (who had unsheathed his whinyard, and was making vain passes at his antagonist) and Nigel, who had stepped back to take his sword, and now held it undrawn in his left hand.

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

"By my troth, young sir," he said, "you are as long in the face as the devil at a christening, and I cannot marvel at it, for I have sailed these waters since I was as high as this whinyard, and yet I never saw more sure promise of an evil night."

The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

"By my troth, young sir," he said, "you are as long in the face as the devil at a christening, and I cannot marvel at it, for I have sailed these waters since I was as high as this whinyard, and yet I never saw more sure promise of an evil night."

The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

"By my troth, young sir," he said, "you are as long in the face as the devil at a christening, and I cannot marvel at it, for I have sailed these waters since I was as high as this whinyard, and yet I never saw more sure promise of an evil night."

The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

"By my troth, young sir," he said, "you are as long in the face as the devil at a christening, and I cannot marvel at it, for I have sailed these waters since I was as high as this whinyard, and yet I never saw more sure promise of an evil night."

The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

'He got a wipe over the arm from the gauger's whinyard.

Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

"By my troth, young sir," he said, "you are as long in the face as the devil at a christening, and I cannot marvel at it, for I have sailed these waters since I was as high as this whinyard, and yet I never saw more sure promise of an evil night."

The White Company 1890

I like him not, with his laced band and feather, his book and lute: harquebuss and whinyard are the tools for these days.

Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's, 1872