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A sword with a broad blade and (usually) two cutting edges
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broadsword
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Broadsword or basket-hilted sword is an early modern military sword. Broadsword may also refer to: Chinese broadsword , a wide-edged variety of the Chinese sabre or dao Claymore , a double edged longsword of Scottish origin
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a sword with a broad blade and (usually) two cutting edges; used to cut rather than stab
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English brad swurd , from broad (adj.) + sword .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A type of sword, usually of the single-handed basket hilt variety, that has a broad cutting blade as opposed to the more slender thrust-oriented rapier.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A dozen men and women clad in furs were polishing axes and broadswords monotonously, mindlessly. ▪ A long courtyard deck jutted forth like a notched broadsword . ▪ It is a broadsword , and Marlowe uses it brutally.
Usage examples of broadsword.
A dusty candle burned in a dusty sconce and by its light Alec saw a broadsword hanging on the wall above the bed, its scarred scabbard blackened with age.
The hall at Bowmont, with its arbitrary collection of broadswords, incomprehensible tapestries and a weasel which the Basher had stuffed, but without success, was not a place in which anybody lingered.
When a few moments later he returned, he wore no mail or helm but a soft cap of doeskin and a shirt of the same, overlaid with a rough jerkin of wolf fur held in place by a belt from which hung his broadsword and a well-honed dagger.
Few man were dressed or armed in the same way: lance and spear, axe and round leather targe, rifle, jezail and the dreadful broadsword were poised.
But those who saw it last saw it fixed to the handle of the great broadsword, fused with the metal cast in the forge, the image burnished and glowing, the hand clenched at the joinder of blade and pommel, the flame rising upward along the blade toward its tip.
This plume and plaid no more will see, Nor philabeg, nor dirk at knee, Nor even the broadswords which Dundee Bade flash at Killiecrankie.
One of his clubs was the Medieval Club-on fine summer afternoons in Kent they got together and had at each other with broadsword, mace, and lance-and Blade was also an expert on such arcana as wheel locks, miquelets, the snaphaunce, and right through to such weapons as the M 16.
Knives of every size, brief poinards, broadswords, even elaborate scimitars and snees, bristled among them.
Evandar burst into the blue light, swooping and plunging through the air with a broadsword in one hand and an oval shield in the other.
Drujani wielding a broadsword cleared a space around him and then flung down his blade, seizing me and bending me backward over a table, the heel of his hand under my chin.
Through the telescope Ryder saw Osman rise in the stirrups and brandish his broadsword.
As they closed with the steamer and her tangled string of barges the Ansar shrieked their terrible praise of God, and brandished their broadswords.
At least he was easy enough to keep in sight, the dim grey robe of his mandilion coat swinging with the speed of his pace, the hilt of his broadsword rising over his shoulder and the blond hair clubbed at his neck.
As they closed with the steamer and her tangled string of barges the Ansar shrieked their terrible praise of God, and brandished their broadswords.
Richius held up his broadsword for Crinion to see, waving it above his head.