tulwar

[ tuhl-wahr, tuhl-wahr ]

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noun

Origin of tulwar¹

1825–35; < Hindi talwār, tarwār < Sanskrit taravāri

In one of these an officer received a tulwar cut which severed an artery.

Disdaining to jump he came down slowly, and faced Mowbray without laying hand on the pistol or jeweled tulwar he carried.

“Bit of a chop from a tulwar,” replied Drummond, touching his bandaged arm lightly.

Charlie, however, drew his pistol, and Hossein took his place with his drawn tulwar by the helmsman.

Heads cracked beneath the fall of staves, and red blood spurted from a knife thrust or the cut of a tulwar.

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