Definitions for baldrics

baldrics bal·dric

Spelling: [bawl-drik]
IPA: /ˈbɔl drɪk/

Baldrics is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 414 anagrams from letters in baldrics (abcdilrs).

Definitions for baldrics

noun

  1. a belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn diagonally from shoulder to hip, supporting a sword, horn, etc.

Origin of baldrics

1250-1300; Middle English bauderik, bawdryk, baudry Anglo-French baudré, baldré, Old French baldrei, baudré, perhaps Frankish *baltirad sword belt, equivalent to Latin balte(us) Examples for baldrics

In front of her was a damsel bearing in baldric a great sword with haft of emerald and tassels of jewel-encrusted gold.

A "Sheffield whittle" stuck in his baldric; and in a pouch was deposited the remnant of a magnificent pasty.

We heard him getting into his boots again and buckling on his baldric.

He set the example by putting one on like a baldric, Mark doing the same with the other.

Their cartridge-pouch and their bayonet are slung to their right side by a baldric.

The Chevalier squared his shoulders and shifted his baldric.

And first a shield he fashioned, vast and strong, with threefold rim, and baldric of silver.

It hung from its own baldric with an axe and a round shield.

The Roman legionary could not, as a rule, withdraw from the service; he could not avoid the baldric.

His sword glittered with golden ornaments, and the scabbard was of silver, and the baldric of gold.

Word Value for baldrics
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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