toledo

See also: Toledo

English

Etymology

From Toledo.

Noun

toledo (plural toledos)

1. A sword or sword blade made at Toledo in Spain, a city famous in the 16th and 17th centuries for the excellence of its weapons.
   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page xv

     A long toledo, with a hilt of filigrained steel, length of the blade three feet nine inches, finely tapering to a point.

   • 1821, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 3:

     ‘Fair Neophyte, beautiful Christian,’ answered the stranger, with a diabolical sneer, ‘be it known to you that I regard bolts, and bars, and walls, as much as I did the breakers and rocks of your Indian isle—that I can go where, and retire when I please, without leave asked or taken of your brother’s mastiffs, or Toledos, or spring-guns, and in utter defiance of your mother’s advanced guard of duennas, armed in spectacles, and flanked with a double ammunition of rosaries, with beads as large as—’

Anagrams

• looted, tooled

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Spanish

Noun

toledo m (plural toledos)

1. (slang) toilet