A katana is a famous kind of Japanese sword:
http://snipurl.com/oclf. It merely means "sword, blade" in Japanese.
BtN used to have Katana entered into the database, but for some reason
Mike C appears to have taken it out. You can still see the entry pseudo-cached on Answers.com:
http://snipurl.com/oclk.
EDIT: Typo
Miranda
Proud adopter of 15 punctuation marks; see my profile for their names.This message was edited 3/29/2006, 12:53 AM