The Collaborative International Dictionary
Damascus \Da*mas"cus\, n. [L.] A city of Syria.
Damascus blade, a sword or scimiter, made chiefly at Damascus, having a variegated appearance of watering, and proverbial for excellence.
Damascus iron, or Damascus twist, metal formed of thin bars or wires of iron and steel elaborately twisted and welded together; used for making gun barrels, etc., of high quality, in which the surface, when polished and acted upon by acid, has a damask appearance.
Damascus steel. See Damask steel, under Damask, a.
Usage examples of "damascus blade".
He missed a strong blow at me, and I cut back with my Damascus blade, which was steel that was truly steel, and the edge bit through his helmet.
The Damascus blade was dark as night, filmed with a thin sheen of oil.
With the razor-sharp Damascus blade they opened a vein in their right wrists, then massaged the arm until the blood was flowing bright and warm down into their cupped palms.
The thing was half a yard long with a viciously sharp Damascus blade, some sort of a custom job.
But the really good steel, the Damascus blade of the Arabs, had to be quenched in blood.
Moreover, tempered by snow like a Damascus blade in the waters of Syria, he had a frame of iron, as General Kissoff had said, and, what was no less true, a heart of gold.