poniard
noun
a small, slender dagger.
Example Sentences
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One lift of the steady eyelid, one quiet glint of that terrible cold gray eye, that poniarded her every tissue of complexity, inconsistency, and coquetry, had been enough.
From A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West by Frank Norris
Others, indeed, told the story in a different fashion, declaring that it was a della Rebbia who had been seduced, and a Barricini who had been poniarded.
From Colomba by Lady Mary Sophia (Hely-Hutchinson) Loyd
