Vorpal

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  • adj. Sharp or deadly.
  • adj. Having a special power making decapitation likely.
  • Word Usage
    "The nonsense-word vorpal used by Lewis Carroll in his poem “Jabberwocky”, which from context in the poem probably means ‘deadly, keen’, through transference to the general term ‘vorpal weapon’ in D&D, has come to acquire the sense ‘capable of beheading’ (cf. this article)."
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