dah

Definitions

1. The spoken representation of a dash in radio and telegraph Morse code.
2. A long knife or sword with a round cross-section grip, a long, gently curving blade with a single edge, and no guard.
   Myanmar

Equivalents

Examples

“Jowar Singh the Sikh procured sabre, quoit, and mace, / Abdul Huq, Wahabi, jerked his dagger from its place⟳, / While amid the jungle-grass danced and grinned and jabbered / Little Boh Hla-oo and cleared his dah-blade from the scabbard.”

“It was like⟳ a sea of people, two thousand at the least, black and white in the moon, with here and there a curved dah glittering.”

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