dah
Collocations
1VERB + DAH
curved
Definitions
noun
The spoken representation of a dash in radio and telegraph Morse code.
noun
A long knife or sword with a round cross-section grip, a long, gently curving blade with a single edge, and no guard.
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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Synonyms
noun — the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
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Example Bank
3Jowar 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 clear
WiktionaryIt 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.
WiktionaryTah dah!
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