What is "greatsword"

Usage examples of "greatsword".

As it was described to me, a cut-and-thrust greatsword, the blade green-blue and lustrous, damacened with silver and with many runes and sigils laid upon it.

He could break your blade if you tried to block instead of parry, but what do you do if one of those alien warriors comes at you with that greatsword you described?

Haven took the biggest, a greatsword, with a double-handed hilt and a jeweled pommel.

I have trained men to use the broadsword, greatsword, dagger and buckler, maul, flail, mace, the halberd, and the war axe.

Those two on either hand of and closest to the slave dealer leaned on the foot-long hilts of broad-bladed greatswords, four to four and a half feet of blade length.

By the unsteady light of the tall funeral brands set three on each side of the bier, Javan could just make out the form of Etienne de Courcy among the four knights standing silent vigil there, their backs to the bier, bare heads bowed over greatswords, hands resting motionless on the quillons.

That was why the cavalry camp, in the lands of the Slaine Clan, between Tara and Lagore, was enlarged just in time to begin to house some four hundred galloglaiches out of the Scottish Western Islesan identical breed to Bass's original squadron, but these newcomers fighting afoot, with matchlock calivers, pikes, axes, and greatswords.

His little brother Dickon would inherit the Tarly lands and castle, and the greatsword Heartsbane that the lords of Horn Hill had bome so proudly for centuries.

Spears bristled in their couchings, and greatswords, hammers, and more than a few war axes weighed across backs.

Pale red permons trailed from the ends of a few lances, but many more carried battle-axes and greatswords and shields hacked half to splinters.

It snapped at Ryld once, twice, and the warrior fended the attacks off with his greatsword, laboring to keep the twitching mandibles away from him.

Still, he had seen enough to realize that the young and ambitious grangeling who stood before him, wearing the white and gold of Hews and carrying a five-foot greatsword on his back, might one day make a bid for his place.

Below him sat Lady Oakheart, tiny and delicate, and to her left Lord Randyll Tarly of Horn Hill, his greatsword Heartsbane propped up against the back of his seat.

The greatsword at his waist was shorter than most swords given that name, but it was polished to a high sheen and couched in the best lamb's wool.

Houndaer shouted a war cry, ran a final stride, and swung the greatsword.