Posted by KRICO on April 18, 2001 at 08:53:25:
In Reply to: "scimitar" (a curved sword used by Arabs) posted by RickFeliz on April 18, 2001 at 01:42:50:
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RF, That scimitar is the big, heavy, crescent-shaped sword that is still used in fundamentalist Islamic countries to lop off hands, feet, heads, etc, of those convicted of various crimes. I was originally going to use the word "broad axe" (Anglo-Saxon origin), but "swingin' the broad axe" didn't have the alliterative sibilation of "swingin' the scimitar"...."bouncing the broad axe off each other's beans" ?... "spiraling spears into each other's spines"?..."knockin' each other's noggins with nun-chuks" ?...Ahhhhhh, "scimitar" was probably the best choice... KRICO
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