In The Bride of Lammermoor (Chapter VI) Bucklaw vows, "I will chop them off with my whinger," and one feels quite let down when he learns that a whinger is but a whinyard, which is merely a short sword. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3] Reference
I like him not, with his laced band and feather, his book and lute: harquebuss and whinyard are the tools for these days. From Wordnik.com. [Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,] Reference
"By my troth, young sir," he said, "you are as long in the face as the devil at a christening, and I cannot marvel at it, for I have sailed these waters since I was as high as this whinyard, and yet I never saw more sure promise of an evil night.". From Wordnik.com. [The White Company]
Here he was interrupted by his asthma, but, nevertheless, continued to interpose his person between Colepepper (who had unsheathed his whinyard, and was making vain passes at his antagonist) and Nigel, who had stepped back to take his sword, and now held it undrawn in his left hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
“Surely, man — surely,” replied the king — “but a sight of your father, with his long whinyard, would have been a blithe matter a short while syne; and in future we will aid the ends of Providence in our favour, by keeping near us two stout beef-eaters of the guard. —. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
“Ay, Will,” answered Ganlesse carelessly; “I think I have seen thee wave thy whinyard at the throat of a. From Wordnik.com. [Peveril of the Peak] Reference
"Ay, Will," answered Ganlesse carelessly; "I think I have seen thee wave thy whinyard at the throat of a Hogan-Mogan -- a Netherlandish weasand, which expanded only on thy natural and mortal objects of aversion, -- Dutch cheese, rye-bread, pickled herring, onion, and. From Wordnik.com. [Peveril of the Peak] Reference
"Surely, man -- surely," replied the king -- "but a sight of your father, with his long whinyard, would have been a blithe matter a short while syne; and in future we will aid the ends of Providence in our favour, by keeping near us two stout beef-eaters of the guard. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
And on his nut-brown whinyard bore. From Wordnik.com. [Hudibras] Reference
He lost his whinyard, and the rein. From Wordnik.com. [Hudibras] Reference
He snatch'd his whinyard up, that fled. From Wordnik.com. [Hudibras] Reference
Was slaughter'd by Thurston's whinyard. From Wordnik.com. [Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon] Reference
Mustered his breath, his whinyard drew. From Wordnik.com. [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference
And out his nut-brown whinyard drew; 480. From Wordnik.com. [Hudibras] Reference
Mustered his breath, his whinyard drew. From Wordnik.com. [Lady of the Lake] Reference
Mustered his breath, his whinyard drew: —. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Lake] Reference
138. = whinyard. From Wordnik.com. [Lady of the Lake] Reference
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