n. A dagger typically having a slender three- or four-sided blade. tr.v. pon·iard·ed, pon·iard·ing, pon·iards To stab with such a dagger. [French poignard, from poing, fist, from Old French, from Latin pugnus; see peuk- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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