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Two-edged. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. Two-edged a. Having two edges; esp. of a sword, ax, etc., having two cutting edges, one on each side of the blade.

1   In quot. 1712–4 applied humorously to a pair of scissors.

2 1526.  Tindale, Heb. iv. 12. The worde off god is … sharper then eny two edged swearde.

3 1546.  Lanc. Wills (Chetham Soc.), II. 27. My greit twoo edged sword and my lesse tow edged sword.

4 1578.  Lyte, Dodoens, IV. xxxi. 489. Turner calleth it … Axeworte, bycause Dioscorides saith the seede is lyke a two edged Axe.

5 1648.  Hexham, II. Een twee-snijdigh swaert, a two-edged sword.

6 1712–4.  Pope, Rape Lock, III. 128. Clarissa drew … A two-edg’d weapon from her shining case.

7 1776.  J. Lee, Introd. Bot., Explan. Terms, Anceps, two-edged, flattened with two opposite sides sharp.

8 1850.  W. Irving, Mahomet, etc., xxxviii. II. 344. Alashtar … wielded a two-edged sword.

9 1875.  Bennett & Dyer, trans. Sachs’ Bot., 410. The … apical cell … of Isoëtes lacustris is, according to Hofmeister, two-edged when the stem has two furrows.

10   b.  fig. or in figurative allusion.

11 a. 1625.  Fletcher, Hum. Lieutenant, III. iv. She has two-edged eyes; they kill o’ both sides.

12 1661.  Boyle, Style of Script. (1675), 126. I find all these Topicks … such two-edg’d Weapons, that they are as well applicable to the service of Falshood, as of Truth.

13 1878.  Bosw. Smith, Carthage, 82. Elephants were found to be a two-edged weapon which might be fatal to the hand which wielded it.

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