Middle English Dictionary Entry
panāde n.
Entry Info
| Forms | panāde n. |
| Etymology | Prob. AL or AF; cp. ML penardus, penatum & OF penart, panart. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A long knife or dagger.
Associated quotations
- (1340) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.127 : [The fishmongers..were armed with knives called]..panades.
- a1350 Annal.Paulini in RS 76.1 (Lamb 1106)350 : Et ad hoc tradidit suum panade, unde caput episcopi fuerat abscisum.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Rv.(Manly-Rickert)A.3929 : By his belt he baar a long panade, And of a swerd ful trenchaunt was the blade.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Rv.(Manly-Rickert)A.3960 : He wolde be slayn of Symkyn With panade or with knyf or boydekyn.