falchion

See also: Falchion

English
A falchion.

Alternative forms
Variant spellings[1]
  • fachon (14th-17th century)
  • fachone (14th-17th century)
  • fachoun (14th-17th century)
  • fauchon (14th-17th century)
  • fauchone (14th-17th century)
  • fauchoun (14th-17th century)
  • fawchon (14th-17th century)
  • fawchone (14th-17th century)
  • fawchoun (14th-17th century)
  • fauschune (15th century)
  • fawchun (15th century)
  • fawken (15th century, erroneous, conflating falcon)
  • fouchon (15th century)
  • fwalchon (15th century)
  • fachen (16th century)
  • falcheon (16th century)
  • faucheon (16th-19th century)
  • fauchin (16th-17th century)
  • fauchine (16th-17th century)
  • fauchion (16th-19th century)
  • faulcheon (16th-19th century)
  • faulchion (16th-19th century)
  • fawcheon (16th-19th century)
  • fawchin (16th-17th century)
  • fawchine (16th-17th century)
  • fawchion (16th-19th century)
  • falcen (17th century, erroneous, conflating falcon)
  • falchon (17th century)
  • faulchin (18th century)

Etymology

From Middle English fauchoun, from Old French fauchon (cognate with Italian falcione), from Vulgar Latin *falciōnem, from Latin falx.

Pronunciation
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: fôlʹshən, IPA(key): /ˈfɔːlʃən/,[1]
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈfɔlt͡ʃən/
    • (cot-caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈfɑlt͡ʃən/

Noun

falchion (plural falchions)

  1. (also attributively) A somewhat curved, single-edged medieval sword of European origin, with the cutting edge on its convex side, whose design is reminiscent of the Persian scimitar and the Chinese dao.[1]
  2. (obsolete)[1] A billhook.[1]

Derived terms
  • case of falchions (swordplay)
  • double falchion (swordplay)
  • falchioned (armed with a falchion)
  • single falchion (swordplay)

Translations

Verb

falchion (third-person singular simple present falchions, present participle falchioning, simple past and past participle falchioned)

  1. (obsolete, rare, transitive)[2] Attack with a falchion.[2]

Derived terms

References
  1. “falchion, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
  2. “†ˈfalchion, v.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
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