targe
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of targe
before 1000; Middle English < Old French < Old Norse targa round shield; cognate with Old High German zarga rim, ring; replacing Old English targe, targa < Old Norse
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He ran as much as he has all season on a night when he had to, and he was as on targe with his passes, which was needed on so many third- and fourth-down plays.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2019
He took out the broad targe And soon he let him see.
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
She wears a hat large as a targe or buckler, brings the artillery of her eyes to bear on the young Squire, and jokes him about his sweetheart.
From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Alexander Smith
The sun's last glance was glinted back, From spear and glaive, from targe and jack,note The next, all unreflected, shone 255 On bracken green, and cold gray stone.
From Lady of the Lake by William Vaughn Moody
At once, in contest for that airy form, Grecians and Trojans on each other's breasts530 The bull-hide buckler batter'd and light targe.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper
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