basilard

[bas-uh-lerd]

bas·i·lard

[bas-uh-lerd]
noun
a medieval dagger having a tapering blade with straight transverse quillons and a T-shaped pommel.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English bas(e)lard, Medieval Latin basalardus, bassilardus. See bacillus, -ard
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Basilard is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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