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plural dahs
The spoken representation of a dash in radio and telegraph Morse code. examples
(Myanmar) A long knife or sword with a round cross-section grip, a long, gently curving blade with a single edge, and no guard. quotations examples
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.
1922, Rudyard Kipling, What Happened, lines 33–36
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.
1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 22”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers