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seax (plural seaxes)

(historical) A short Saxon sword.
- 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 34:
  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.
- 1950 June, Michael Robbins, “Heraldry of London Underground Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 380:
  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 […] .

short Saxon sword

seax

seax n

knife
Synonym: (rare or dialectical) cnīf
- c. 980, Exeter Book Riddle 77:
  Nū wile monna sum mīn flǣsċ fretan, felles ne reċċeð, siþþan hē mē of sīdan seaxes orde hȳd ārȳpeð, …ec hr…þe siþþan iteð unsodene ea…
  Now one of men wishes to eat my flesh, doesn't care for skin, since he tears hide from me by a point of knife's sides, since he eats uncooked…
short sword

Strong a-stem:

Middle English: sax, sexe, sex, sæx, seax
- English: sax; zax
- Scots: saks; sax (verb) (through confluence with Norse form)
→ English: seax (learned)