Definition of "poniarding" []

• Present participle of poniard. (verb)

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• "Bruce poniarding the Red Comyn in the Church of the Dominicans at this place, and becoming a king and patriot because he had been a church-breaker and a murderer."
• "Harb were celebrated for shooting or poniarding the man who ventured to use to them even the mild epithet “O jackass!”"
• "Marat repelled the disparaging imputation of clemency and common sense, and talked in his familiar vein of poniarding brigands, burning despots alive in their palaces, and impaling the traitors of the Assembly on their own benches."