wagadash
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Noun edit
wagadash (plural wagadashes)
- (archaic) Alternative form of waggadash
- 1855, Richard Hildreth, Japan: As it was and is, page 167:
- They were armed with a species of fire-arms, pikes, swords and targets, bows and arrows, and wagadashes, described as like a Welsh hook.
- 1991, Anthony Farrington, The English Factory in Japan: 1613-1623, page 1019:
- Allso a tatch and a wagadash, a present from him to myselfe.
- 1995, William Corr, Adams the Pilot: The Life and Times of Captain William Adams, 1564-1620:
- The others of my cattans and wagadashes I will and bequeth unto my aforesaied sonne Joseph.