different between poniard vs stylet

English

Alternative forms

• poignard, poinard, poynard, punierd

Etymology

Borrowed from French poignard, from poing (“fist”), from Old French, from Latin p?gnus (“fist”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pew?-.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?nj?d/, /?p?nj??d/

Noun

poniard (plural poniards)

1. (now chiefly historical) A dagger typically having a slender square or triangular blade. [from 16th c.]
   • c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, V.1:

     The sir King ha's wag'd with him six Barbary horses, / against the which he impon'd as I take it, sixe French / Rapiers and Poniards, with their assignes, as Girdle, / Hangers or so […].

   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. IV, ch. 101:

     One of the tragic authors, finding himself assaulted in the dark, had, by way of poinard, employed upon his adversary's throat a knife which lay upon the table, for the convenience of cutting cheese […] .

   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:

     On this occasion I said nothing, but concealing his poniard in my clothes, I hasted up the mountain, determined to execute my purpose […].

Translations

Verb

poniard (third-person singular simple present poniards, present participle poniarding, simple past and past participle poniarded)

1. To stab with a poniard.
   • 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, I:

     Manfred […] would have poignarded the peasant in their arms.

Related terms

• impugn
• pugilism
• pugnacious
• repugn (repugnant)

References

• “poniard”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• “poniard” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "poniard" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

Anagrams

• padroni, pandori, paridon, poinard

English

Etymology

From French stylet (“stiletto”), from Middle French stilet (“stiletto”), from Old Italian stiletto. Doublet of stiletto.

Noun

stylet (plural stylets)

1. An engraving tool, a stylus.
2. (botany) A style of a plant's flower.
3. (surgery) A slender medical probe or device.

   Synonym: style

4. (weaponry) A poniard or stiletto.
5. (zoology) A stiff, slender organ of an animal.

   Synonym: style

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sti.l?/

Etymology 1

From Italian stiletto.

Noun

stylet m (plural stylets)

1. stiletto (blade)

Etymology 2

From style +? -et.

Noun

stylet m (plural stylets)

1. stylus
2. (medicine) stylet