The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gisarm \Gis*arm"\, n. [OF. gisarme, guisarme.] (Medi[ae]val Armor) A weapon with a scythe-shaped blade, and a separate long sharp point, mounted on a long staff and carried by foot soldiers.
Wiktionary
n. (archaic form of gisarme English)
Usage examples of "gisarm".
The other struggled to thrust him away, but Myles, letting go the gisarm, which he held with his left hand, clutched him tightly by the sword-belt in the intense, vise-like grip of despair.
In vain the Earl strove to beat him loose with the shaft of the gisarm, in vain he spurred and reared his horse to shake him off.
If there be a man in this house who holds himself so hardy, is so bold in his blood, so rash in his head, that he dares stiffly strike one stroke for another, I shall give him as my gift this rich gisarm, this axe, that is heavy enough, to handle as he likes.
Give me now thy gisarm, for God's sake, and I will grant thy boon that thou hast bidden.
But Gawain glanced to one side on the gisarm as it came gliding down to slay him there in the glade, and shrank a little with the shoulders from the sharp iron.