Definition of "whinyard" [whin•yard]

• A sword, or hanger. (noun)
• The shoveler, a type of duck. (noun)
• The poachard, a type of duck. (noun)

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• "In The Bride of Lammermoor (Chapter VI) Bucklaw vows, "I will chop them off with my whinger," and one feels quite let down when he learns that a whinger is but a whinyard, which is merely a short sword."
• "Mr. Payne renders “Sharít” by whinyard: it must be a chopper-like weapon, with a pin or screw"
• "Here he was interrupted by his asthma, but, nevertheless, continued to interpose his person between Colepepper (who had unsheathed his whinyard, and was making vain passes at his antagonist) and Nigel, who had stepped back to take his sword, and now held it undrawn in his left hand."