Obs. or arch. rare. [F., f. tranche vb. imper. cut + fer iron.] A name given to a sword.
c. 1530. Ld. Berners, Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814), 208. And Arthur drewe out Clarence, his good sworde;… also called traunchfer, that is for to say, cutter of yren.
1831. Scott, Ct. Robt., xiii. We will go … and teach these Easterns how to judge of a knight’s sword, by a single blow of my trusty Tranchefer.
