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One-edged   Listen
adjective
one-edged  adj.  Having only one sharp edge; single-edged; of cutting instruments, mostly swords and razor blades. Opposed to double-edged.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"One-edged" Quotes from Famous Books



... till manhood. Five Sikhs must be present at the ceremony, when the novice repeats the articles of the faith and drinks sugar and water stirred up with a two-edged dagger. At the initiation of women a one-edged dagger is used, but this is seldom done. Thus most of the wives of Sikhs have never been initiated, nor is it necessary that their children should become Sikhs when they grow up. The faith is unattractive to women owing to the simplicity ...
— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) • R.V. Russell



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