scramasax

or scram·a·saxe

[ skram-uh-saks ]

noun

1. a single-edged knife or sword used by the Anglo-Saxons.

Word History and Origins

Origin of scramasax¹

1860–65; < Late Latin scramasaxus < Germanic; compare Old High German scrāma big knife, Old English seax short sword, sax ²

Example Sentences

But the count, who, with both his hands upon his paunch swollen with food and drink, was roaring with laughter and, like the rest of the leudes, shook with mirth, again smote the table violently with the handle of his scramasax.

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"Will you have done!" cried the count again smiting the table with the handle of his scramasax.

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Three times he strikes on the table with the handle of his scramasax, the name given by the barbarians to the knife used at table, and habitually worn at the warrior's belt.

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By some diabolical trick of fascination she persuaded a pair of assassins to penetrate into Sigebert's camp, armed with a "scramasax" she had herself provided.

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