A sword. So called from a famous sword-maker of the name. (Sixteenth century.)
“Weʹll put in bail, my boy; old Andrea Ferrara shall lodge his security.”—Scott: Waverley, ch. 50.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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