yataghan

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Noun
  • The dagger is a metallurgical masterpiece that could be up to 2,500 years old, per the statement.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Threaten the rubber hand by attempting to stab it with a dagger, for instance, and the participants exhibit an involuntary startle or fear response.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • For the occasion, the office of the local governor had prepared an elaborate ceremony, with a military band and an honor guard standing at attention, the bayonets of their rifles glinting in the sun.
    Simon Shuster, TIME, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Striking miners were astonished to discover soldiers from the U.S. Army disembarking from train cars, their bayonets glittering in the frosty air.
    Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The look was finished off with a white coat draped over her shoulders, ankle-strap stilettos, and oversized sunglasses.
    Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Mix and match it with a variety of shirt and jacket combinations, such as a snug white tee and jean jacket; complete the look with sneakers, sandals, or stiletto booties.
    Emily Weaver, People.com, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The workers blamed Landi — who was still in charge — for their troubles, and an image of Landi posing, pirate-style, with a cartoon-villain expression and a cutlass between his teeth became a symbol for Eutelia’s misdeeds.
    Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The ultimate prop was the pirate flag, which could be decorated with a skull and crossbones (as in the classic Jolly Roger design), bleeding hearts, hourglasses, spears, cutlasses and skeletons.
    Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
Noun
  • Icke also occasionally cues up some Bob Dylan songs, chosen for their on-the-bodkin lyrics.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 30 June 2022
  • Punishment for cursing or disparaging a clergyman was having a bodkin — a large needle — driven through the tongue.
    Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2017
Noun
  • Carry concealed dirk or dagger – 400 block of Santa Fe Drive, 11:12 a.m. DUI – 0 block of La Costa Avenue, 3:32 a.m.
    Luke Harold, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Jan. 2025
  • California, which is also in the Ninth Circuit, bans the possession of an even wider assortment of bladed weapons, including dirks, daggers, ballistic knives, belt buckle knives, lipstick case knives, cane swords, and more.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2023
Noun
  • Investigators were also not immediately aware of how Taylor was able to board the airplane with a knife, though Williams acknowledged that the country's smaller airstrips lacked security to fully search passengers.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Authorities were called to a residence there, near Harrison Avenue and West Bridger Street, the evening of April 5 to investigate a report of a physical disturbance involving a person with a knife.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The brother grabbed a machete and engaged his father, who’s accused of stabbing him during the fight, prosecutors said.
    Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Ortega’s accomplice, who is still being sought, threatened the victim with a machete before running off with the victim’s laptop, wallet, credit cards, and cell phone, officials said.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 20 Mar. 2025
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“Yataghan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yataghan. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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