fankedadj. penned up; in ?a1600transf. of a sword: Set fast in the sheath.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > cut or thrust with sword > [adjective] > sheathed
fanked?a1600
sheathed1810
scabbarded1888
?a1600 Death of Parcy Reed xxviii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1890) IV. vii. cxciii. 27/6 Brave Parcy raised his fankit sword, And felld the foremost to the ground.