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shortswords

n. (plural of shortsword English)

Usage examples of "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.