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shortsword

alt. A class of swords that is generally shorter than 1 meter, but longer than a dagger. n. A class of swords that is generally shorter than 1 meter, but longer than a dagger.

Usage examples of "shortsword".

Behind Geros, wielding sabers and broadswords and a miscellany of pole arms, came twoscore Freefighters of the Morguhn Company and, after them, the battered remnants of the Confederation infantry, mostly spearless now but no less deadly with shortsword and shield.

For their part, they watchec him intently, occasionally licking nervous sweat from their uppei lips, hands moist on the hilts of their scabbarded shortswords.

The others, he saw, all held weapons ranging from hammers and shortswords to a number of hefty axes.

When their stubby legs finally carried them to the men of Doncastle, their axes and shortswords were met with spears.

Turkish marines wreaked gory havoc with boarding pikes and cursive swords on his left and, beyond them, Sir Calum and the Baron Melchoro stood back to back, plying Irish shortswords and spiked bucklers to fearsome effect, while shouting gruesome jokes to one another and roaring out snatches of bawdy songs.

Behind them four more, shooting even as the first four dropped their bows and leaped forward with shortswords in hand.

Although Diomedes leads the counterattack, followed closely by the Atrides, Agamemnon and Menelaus, followed in turn by Big Ajax and Little Ajax, and although these heroes take their toll on the Trojans in spearcasts and shortsword clashes, the fighting now is centered around the Achaean archer Teucer, bastard son of Telamon and half-brother to Big Ajax.

The day filled with the clash of blades and lances, sabres and shortswords, and the dark knot of Jeranyi appeared ever smaller as the lines of white-clad armsmen swelled, as did the clangor.

Every day they train from dawn to dusk, until they have mastered the shortsword, the shield, and the three spears.

Their shortswords stabbed past the Vides sians' defenses, while their large scuta turned blow after blow.

They rode past this lot (too sodden with drink or drug, or just too damn lazy to set one of their own to sentry duty) without a challenge, but with one hand on their knives and shortswords at all times.

For simultaneously with Murie's shortsword to his heart, my other Valkyrie, Rawl's shield-maiden, Caroween, drove her sword, with both hands, straight between his eyes, so that it stood out a hand's-breadth beyond his skull.

As usual, he was dressed only in sandals and a blousy pair of pantaloons, his throwing knives strapped to his right hip, a shortsword belted to his left.

Sir Pellinore carried only a shortsword and no shield, but on a branch he had hung a black cloak embroidered with what Twisk took to be his arms: three red roses on a blue field.