katzbalger

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English

Noun

katzbalger (plural katzbalgers)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Katzbalger
    • 1961, Gladius, page 28:
      It also leads to the small cutting swords, the katzbalgers, the special sidearm of the lansquenets. Under influence of the Asiatic and the East European cavalry's single-edged, more or less curved weapons, sabres, came ...
    • 2010, Jan Piet Puype, Harm Stevens, Arms and Armour of Knights and Landsknechts in the Netherlands Army Museum, Eburon Uitgeverij B.V., →ISBN, page 8:
      ... the second half of the 12th century with an inscription that is clearly related to the so-called “Benedictus” group from the same period, as well as a katzbalger or Landsknecht sword from the second quarter of the 16th century.
    • 2016, James Jackson, Treason, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd., →ISBN:
      Hardy drew his katzbalger and turned. Standing behind him were seven men. They were armed with swords and spiked clubs and exuded the boastful enjoyment of predators on a hunt, confident of their supremacy ...
    • 2020, Tina Berg, The Devil Nun, Babelcube Inc., →ISBN:
      Everyone now had either a rapier, a sword, or a katzbalger in his fist. Steel met steel when the decision was being made in close combat.