whinyard

noun

1. A sword, especially a hanger.

   obsolete

   It is not a necessary inference that he was wounded, though she says they struck him over her shoulder with whinyards; their object, undoubtedly, was to get him out of the queen's presence in the first place.

Where it comes from

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.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry whinyard (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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