Crossword clues for falchion
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Falchion \Fal"chion\, n. [OE. fauchon, OF. fauchon, LL. f["a]lcio, fr. L. falx, falcis, a sickle, cf. Gr. ?????? a ship's rib, ?????? bandy-legged; perh, akin to E. falcon; cf. It. falcione. Cf. Defalcation.]
A broad-bladed sword, slightly curved, shorter and lighter than the ordinary sword; -- used in the Middle Ages.
A name given generally and poetically to a sword, especially to the swords of Oriental and fabled warriors.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a broad sword, somewhat curved," c.1300, fauchoun, from Old French fauchon "curved sword," from Vulgar Latin *falcionem, from diminutive of Latin falx "sickle" (see falcate). Partially re-Latinized in early Modern English.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context also in attributive use English) A somewhat curved medieval single edge sword of European origin, with the cutting edge on its convex side, whose design is reminiscent of the Persian http://en.wikipedi
org/wiki/scimitar and the Chinese http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/dao%20(sword). 2 (context obsolete English) A billhook. v
(context obsolete rare transitive English)“” listed in the '''Oxford English Dictionary''' [2nd Ed.; 1989] attack with a #Noun.
WordNet
n. a short broad slightly convex medieval sword with a sharp point
Wikipedia
A falchion (; Old French: fauchon; Latin: falx, "sickle") is a one-handed, single-edged sword of European origin, whose design is reminiscent of the Persian shamshir, the Chinese dadao, and modern machete. Falchions are found in different forms from around the 13th century up to and including the 16th century. In some versions the falchion looks rather like the weapon- seax and later the sabre, and in some versions the form is irregular or like a machete with a crossguard.
Falchion was a Finnish heavy metal/ death metal band formed in 2002. Their debut album, Legacy of Heathens, was released in 2005. The vocalist and lead guitarist Juho Kauppinen and drummer Matti Johansson perform with the Finnish folk metal group Korpiklaani, as the accordion player and drummer, respectively. The band dissolved in 2009.
Usage examples of "falchion".
He also made certain that the falchion was loose in the sheaththe broad, thick, heavy blade was centuries older than the elderly arquebus, but cold steel was at least always dependable, if well honed and hard-swung.
I had fleshed the point of the falchion in the haunch of one of these animals when I heard the drumming of hoofs, and supposing them to belong to the destrier of an estafette, moved to the edge of the road to let him pass.
He cut the falchion through a leather coat, kicked the blade free, swung it so that blood streamed in droplets from the blade, then hacked again.
Will Skeat had once told Thomas how he had seen a Scottish horse decapitated with a single blow of a falchion, and just to see one of the brutal blades was to feel terror in the gut.
With a clatter and a clang, hand weapons cascaded out of nowhere: war axes, mattocks, cleavers, falchions, stabbing spears, all good steel sharpened and blackened against rust.
Durindana or Fushberta to their respective masters, and was nearly as formidable to his enemies as those renowned falchions proved to the foes of Christendom.
Thin poniards and wider daggers, dirks, stilettos, one saber, one scimitar, kukris and katars from India, a skean dhu from Scotland, a short-handled halberd, bayonets, falchions, bowies, yataghans.
She sheathed her dagger, picked up her falchion, and followed Chap to the south stairway with Emê.
Her falchion had proven painful to undeads in the past, though she didn’t understand why.