falchioned
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: fôlʹshənd, IPA(key): /ˈfɔːlʃənd/
Etymology 1
falchion + -ed, from the noun.
Adjective
falchioned (not comparable)
- Armed with a falchion.
Etymology 2
falchion + -ed, from the verb.
Adjective
falchioned (not comparable)
- Slain by a falchion.
Synonyms
- macheted
Verb
falchioned
- simple past tense of falchion
- 1939, James Joyce, chapter I, in Finnegans Wake, page 135:
- […] O sorrow the sail and woe the rudder that were set for Mairie Quail; his suns the huns, his dartars the tartars, are plenty here today; who repulsed from his burst the bombolts of Ostenton and falchioned each flash downsaduck in the deep; […]
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