Synonyms for poniard

Most common

knife · dagger · bodkin

All synonyms

Noun

Definitions

1. n. 1

   A dagger typically having a slender square or triangular blade.

Related words

Other spellings

poignard

Forms

Plural

poniards → knives, daggers, bodkins…

Example sentences

• knife The knife we used to cut the bread with was sharp.
• dagger There's some cloak-and-dagger stuff going on here.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

5 letters

knife¹

6 letters

dagger², bodkin²

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (dagger² = 2 syllables).