Kris

Quick meaning: Kris is a noun meaning A traditional Indonesian, Malaysian, or Filipino sword or dagger having a tapering, usually serpentine blade.

Meaning

A traditional Indonesian, Malaysian, or Filipino sword or dagger having a tapering, usually serpentine blade.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To stab or cut with a kris; to kill with a kris.

Example Sentences

One Malay seaman had resisted the rattan halter––he had been krissed to death on the spot and thrown overboard.

[...] when I was a boy, but Rajah Sul and Sultan Abdel krissed and speared all the poor people and burned the campongs.

Anne Talbot looked demurely ravishing, as was her intention, in a very low-cut evening frock of bottle-green, choker of Kelantan silver, earrings in the shape of krises.

This was reported to the Rajah (to some of whose wives the girl was related), and he immediately sent to the Englishman's house ordering him to give the woman up as she must be "krissed." In vain he begged and prayed, and offered to pay any fine the Rajah might impose, and finally refused to give her up unless he was forced to do so.

Word Forms

• krises
• krisses
• kriss
• krising
• krissing
• krised
• krissed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cris, crisis, keris, kalis, karambit, kerambit.

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