Also yatagan; ATAGHAN. [Turkish yātāghan.] A sword of Mohammedan countries, having a handle without a guard and often a double-curved blade.

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1819.  T. Hope, Anastasius (1820), I. iii. 52. I began hacking and hewing with my yatagan.

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1837.  Gambler’s Dream, I. 144. With our flowing garments, our turbans, and our yataghans, we conquered Asia under the standard of the Prophet.

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1881.  Blackw. Mag., May, 566/1. The curved Arab yataghans with an outside edge.

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1894.  D. C. Murray, Making of Novelist, 125. A Circassian … flourishing … a formidable looking yataghan.

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