subs. (old).—1.  A sword.

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  1591.  J. LYLY, Endymion, i. 3. Top. No; it is my scimitar, which I by construction, often studying to be compendious, call my SMITER.

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  1611.  COTGRAVE, Dictionarie, s.v. Cimeterre. A Scymitar, or SMYTER, a kind of short and crooked sword, much in use among the Turks.

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  1633.  JONSON, A Tale of a Tub, iv. 3.

          Met.  Then, Basket, put thy SMITER up, and hear;
I dare not tell the Truth to a drawn Sword.

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  1659.  The Legend of Captain Jones. His fatall SMITER thrice aloft he shakes.

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  2.  (old).—An arm (B. E. and GROSE).

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