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Definition of Fauchion
1. n. See Falchion.
Definition of Fauchion
1. Noun. (obsolete form of falchion) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fauchion
1. falchion [n -S] - See also: falchion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fauchion
Literary usage of Fauchion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the Bible: Dealing with Its Language, Literature, and by Andrew Bruce Davidson, James Hastings, Samuel Rolles Driver, John Alexander Selbie, Henry Barclay Swete (1908)
"(' fat cattle ' AV and RV), it is the 'fat' kine of Pharaoh's dream (Gn 41). J.
HASTINGS. fauchion—Jth 13» 'ehe ... took down his ..."
2. Narratives of Early Virginia, 1606-1625 by Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1907)
"But the President prevented his shot by grapling with him; and the Salvage as
well prevented him from drawing his fauchion, and perforce bore him into the ..."
3. A Study of Gawain and the Green Knight by George Lyman Kittredge (1916)
"When the return-blow is dealt, the weapon is again a " fauchion" (v. 452.)
The Percy text is, as this instance shows, much confused and somewhat defective. ..."
4. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"... seeing him only armed but with a fauchion, attempted to have shot him; but
the President prevented his shot by grapling with him, and the Savage as well ..."
5. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"... seeing him only armed but with a fauchion, attempted to have shot him; but
the President prevented his shot by grapling with him, and the Savage as well ..."
6. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"... seeing him only armed but with a fauchion, attempted to have shot him ; but
the President prevented his shot by grapling with him, and the Savage as ..."
7. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"He next his fauchion try'd, ... Bat the keen fauchion had no power to bite.
He thrust ; the blunted point return'd again. 'Since downright blows,' he cry'd, ..."
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