Definitions for poniard

poniard pon·iard

Spelling: [pon-yerd]
IPA: /ˈpɒn yərd/

Poniard is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 244 anagrams from letters in poniard (adinopr).

Definitions for poniard

noun

  1. a small, slender dagger.

verb (used with object)

  1. to stab with a poniard.

Origin of poniard

1580-90; French poignard, derivative of poing fist Latin pugnus; see -ard

Examples for poniard

His instruments were a silver cup, a poniard, and a handjar.

He was not sure but a poniard glittered in the clenched hand of Anglique.

This intelligence was like the stroke of a poniard to the feeling heart of Rosabella.

She accordingly offered a poniard to Messalina in the gardens, and urged her to take it.

Ask him if he did not see this poniard in her room while she lay unburied in the house.

The mother pressed the poniard upon her daughter, saying, "Now is the time."

It cut to the heart's palpitating centre like a poniard thrust.

He remembered giving her this poniard on the very day of her crime.

"Let me look at the poniard," she said, with unnatural gentleness.

He did not want to use the poniard yet, but he longed to possess it.

Word Value for poniard
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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