yataghan
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of yataghan
First recorded in 1810–20, yataghan is from the Turkish word yatağan
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Upon Franklin Roosevelt, the net effect was comparable to that of having his own party toss a yataghan 15 blocks up Pennsylvania Avenue and put it squarely in between his shoulder blades.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only concrete indication of how the President felt with Congress' yataghan in his back last week was a note to Majority Leader Rayburn.
From Time Magazine Archive
One day his eldest brother—he had five, of whom two were working in the mines of Siberia—had ordered him to take his yataghan, to get on horseback, and follow him.
From The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Yakutes are expert goldsmiths, but chiefly excel in the manufacture of arms, especially a kind of yataghan, or huge dagger, which is stuck into the waistband.
From From Paris to New York by Land by Harry De Windt
When I say a Turkish yataghan I mean that from a broken Damascus sword-blade and a Persian dagger handle, a yataghan of the Turkish pattern has been made.
From The Sins of Séverac Bablon by Sax Rohmer
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