falchioned

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From falchion +‎ -ed, from the noun.

Adjective

falchioned (not comparable)

  1. Armed with a falchion.

Etymology 2

From falchion +‎ -ed, from the verb.

Adjective

falchioned (not comparable)

  1. Slain by a falchion.
Synonyms

Verb

falchioned

  1. simple past 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; […]