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4 lettersPronunciation /ˈsiːks/Part of speech nounSorted aesxStarts with SEnds with X0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a type of sword or dagger typical of the Germanic peoples of the Migration period and the Early Middle Ages, especially the Saxons.

Word origin

Learned borrowing from Old English seax (“dagger”). Doublet of sax and zax.

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  • The Pugio or Dagger was used by the Romans, a species of that weapon called the Hand Seax was worn by the Saxons, with which they massacred the English on Salisbury Plain in 476.
  • It consisted of the arms of the City of London, Middlesex (three seaxes, or Saxon swords), Buckingham (a swan), and Hertford (a hart), arranged quarterly, on a background of crimson and ermine mantling […].

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