Rapier

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  • noun. A long, slender, two-edged sword with a cuplike hilt, used in the 1500s and 1600s.
  • noun. A light, sharp-pointed sword lacking a cutting edge and used only for thrusting.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A long, narrow, pointed, two-edged sword, used, especially in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with a guard for the hand, adapted for both cutting and thrusting, but used chiefly for thrusting.
  • noun. In later English usage, a fencing-sword used only for thrusting.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A straight sword, with a narrow and finely pointed blade, used only for thrusting.
  • noun. the swordfish.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A slender, straight, sharply pointed sword (double-edged, single-edged or edgeless).
  • adjective. Extremely sharp.
  • adjective. Cutting smarts or keen wit.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a straight sword with a narrow blade and two edges
    • Word Usage
    "Also, it prevented rape without any consequences on the rapists, which I should have stated more clearly, but it has nothing to do with this raper which you mentioned, which I can only assume is a misspelling of the term rapier, which is a type of sword."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    blade  brand  steel  sword  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Napier  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bayonet  blunderbuss  broadsword  buckler  carbine  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    sword  
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