whinyard

English

Etymology

Compare English dialect and Scots whingar, whinger; perhaps from Old English winn (“contention, war”) + geard, gyrd (“a staff, rod, yard”); or compare Old English [Term?] (“whistle”, verb), English whine.

Noun

whinyard (plural whinyards)

  1. (obsolete) A sword, or hanger.
  2. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) The shoveler, a type of duck.
  3. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) The poachard, a type of duck.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for whinyard in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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