baldrick
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.97 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of baldric.
Example Sentences
- "And the bright green belt on his body he bore, oblique, like a baldrick, bound at his side below his left shoulder, laced in a knot..."
- "That a woman conceiv'd me, I thank her; that she brought me up, I likewise give her most humble thanks; but that I will have a rechate winded in my forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick, all women shall pardon me."
- "And from his blazoned baldrick slung, a mighty silver bugle hung..."
- "The sword was carried in a belt of buff or other leather girded round the body, or thrown over the right shoulder, these shoulder belts were called baudricks."