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Anyone have the slightest idea what a muckle whanger is? Here I am, reading merrily along in this eighteenth-century English, and all of a sudden I come upon this: “The combatants were to discharge each a pocket pistol, and then to fall on with their iron-hilted muckle whangers.”

I assume it’s some sort of sword-like weapon. But just saying it makes me want to laugh.