Hamthrax. n. An influenza-type disease, possibly originating in pigs and mostly benign, about which governments get paranoid.
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Today's Word: Glaive
The first in an occasional series bringing you unusual and interesting words.
Glaive. A polearm consisting of a single-edged blade on the end of a pole.
One of those fearsome pieces of medieval weaponry along with things like pikes and halberds. The word is sometimes (wrongly) used to refer to a broadsword. Glaives also appear in a number of video games and animated adventure films.
There’s a bit more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaive.
Illustration from Wikipedia Commons.
Neologism
Reported to me by an acquaintance a guy on a radio programme yesterday saying that his boss had asked him to:
come down and throw a few things in the ideas wok and stir-fry up some solutions.
I’m just speechless.