whinyard

English

Etymology

Compare English dialect and Scots whingar, whinger; perhaps from Old English winn (“contention, war”) + geard, gyrd (“a staff, rod, yard”); or compare Old English [Term?] (“whistle”, verb), English whine.

Noun

whinyard (plural whinyards)

1. (obsolete) A sword, or hanger.
   • 1905, John Hill Burton, The History of Scotland from Agricola's Invasion to the Extinction of the Last Jacobite Insurrection, volume 4:

     It is not a necessary inference that he was wounded, though she says they struck him over her shoulder with whinyards; their object, undoubtedly, was to get him out of the queen's presence in the first place.

2. (UK, dialect, obsolete) The shoveler, a type of duck.
3. (UK, dialect, obsolete) The pochard, a type of duck.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “whinyard”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)