whinyardEtymologyCompare English dialect and Scots whingar, whinger; perhaps from Old English winn (“contention, war”) + geard, gyrd (“a staff, rod, yard”); or compare Old English [Term?] (“whistle”, verb), English whine.whinyard means A sword, especially a hanger. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.nounA sword, especially a hanger.“It is not a necessary inference that he was wounded, though she says they struck him over her shoulder with whinyards; their object, undoubtedly, was to get him out of the queen's presence in the first place.”