Scimitar is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SCIMITAR in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a curved oriental sword, also CEMITARE, SCIMETAR, SCIMITER, SEMITAR, SEMITAUR, SIMITAR, SYMITAR, SYMITARE
• a short sword with a curved blade that broadens towards the point, used originally in Eastern countries.
• A saber with a much curved blade having the edge on the convex side, -- in use among Mohammedans, esp., the Arabs and persians.
• A long-handled billhook. See Billhook.
• a curved oriental saber; the edge is on the convex side of the blade
• curved oriental sword
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a curved sword used by Arabs and Turks

Words related to SCIMITAR

cemitare12 scimetar12 scimitars13 scimiter12 semitar9 semitaur10 simitar9 symitar12 symitare13

Words that contain SCIMITAR

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How to use SCIMITAR in a sentence

• The executioner made Aladdin kneel down, bandaged his eyes, and raised his scimitar to strike.
• The sharpened flint of the savage has become the scimitar of Saladin, keeping the keenness of its edge in a velvet sheath and flashing out only on the field of battle.
• It should not be twisted or curled in any way, but should come up with a curve like a scimitar, the tip, when excited, being in a perpendicular line with the root of the tail.
• To this scimitar they offered sacrifices of horses and cattle, the main wealth of the country, and more costly sacrifices than to all the rest of their gods.
• He was on the point of offering his head at once, in order to save the trouble of a superfluous ceremony which could not, he thought, but end with the scimitar.
• He first called for my scimitar, which I took out, scabbard and all.
• He then desired me to draw my scimitar, which, although it had got some rust by the sea-water, was in most parts exceeding bright.
• The astonishment here was much greater than at the sight of my scimitar.
• And at that instant the gods of the jungle, always waiting with drawn scimitar for the unsuspecting, turned against them.
• Cutting through the blackness like a scimitar shone a ray of light from above, widening as it descended and ending in a white patch on the floor.
• Suddenly he turned to the sheikh on his left, a handsome man of middle age, who wore a scimitar tucked into a gold-embroidered sash, and whispered to him.
• Thereat the captain lifted his scimitar to his own throat, saying that he was now a ruined man, and that nothing remained to him but death.
• So saying, he caught Irene by the hair of her head, which he instantly severed from her body with his scimitar.
• As he waved his scimitar over her head, he seemed unaccountably to assume the form and features of the tutor.
• Over 6000 of them either fell under the scimitar or were taken prisoner.
• Her strong tail waved above and behind her in the curve of an Arab scimitar.
• The pirate captain, a gigantic fellow, soon met Decatur face to face, and stood on tiptoe to deal him a tremendous blow with his scimitar.
• And through the night, it seemed, he fled, Upon a white steed like a star, Across a field of endless dead, Beneath a blood-red scimitar.
• I buckle to my slender side The pistol and the scimitar, And in my maiden flower and pride Am come to share the tasks of war.
• The artificial spur used in Sumatra resembles in shape the blade of a scimitar, and proves a more destructive weapon than the European spur.
• One aimed a slashing blow at his head with a scimitar.
• Haig quickly ducked and the scimitar went crashing against the weapon of the other dervish.
• He soon brought in another prize, and so pleased the Dey that he presented him with a scimitar, the hilt of which was set with diamonds.
• Yielding to the first outburst of his indignation, the unfortunate monarch drew his scimitar, and with one rapid stroke slew them both.
• In his girdle were a pair of pistols and a scimitar.
• We fought, and the princess fought beside us, snatching a scimitar which I was wearing from my side.
• Long and sturdily the two champions fought, foot to foot, sword to scimitar, until their shields and armor were rent and hacked and the ground was red with their blood.
• The edge of a scimitar cut the cable, the sail was set, and the lonely exile set forth upon the sea to the conquest of a kingdom.
• Sword against scimitar, the combatants returned to the encounter.
• The Father of History has recorded as a curious piece of information that the Scythians sacrificed to an iron scimitar.
• Friar John ever and anon waving his huge scimitar, brought up the rear, and double-locked the doors on the inside.
• It was this sharp scimitar of search and seizure which gave the original Maine law its deadly power.
• Just as they reached them a Bedouin who had been struck from his horse crawled beneath the noble charger of King Richard, and drove his scimitar deep into its bowels.
• Truth was, he was a master in the art of religious defence, wielding a scimitar of sharp edge.
• Years ago, when I was roughly set upon by ecclesiastical assailants, he gave one wide swing of his editorial scimitar, which helped much in their ultimate annihilation.
• Immediately he struck the mountain with his scimitar, when the sundered rock gave passage to the waters, and the bottom of the lake became dry.

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