baselard, baslaerd

[In O. Sw. ba lare; O. Teut, baseler = a long dagger or short sword.] A poniard or dagger, generally worn dependent from the girdle. (S. in Boucher.) "Bucklers brode and swerdis long, Baudrike with baselard is kene, Suche toles about ther neck the i hong." Ploughman's Tale, in Wright's Polit. Poems, 1. 331. The weapon with which Sir William de Walworth slew Wat Tyler was a baselard, which is still preserved with veneration by the Company of Fishmongers, of whom Walworth was a member. (S. in Boucher.)