Crossword clues for sword
sword
- Samurai weapon
- Weapon for Athos
- Edged weapon
- Weapon for Zorro
- War metaphor
- Symbol of military power
- Samurai's weapon
- Pentathlon tool
- Knight's blade
- Hand-to-hand weapon
- Epee, e.g
- Duel-purpose weapon?
- Cutting weapon
- "The ___ in the Stone" (1963 animated film)
- Yataghan, e.g
- Weapon with a hilt
- Weapon used with a shield, maybe
- Weapon used in fencing
- Weapon on an Oscar statuette
- Weapon for Beowulf
- Weapon associated with Damocles
- Swashbuckler's need
- Slash lives "By" it
- Shogun's slicer
- Scabbard insert
- Scabbard contents
- Sabre, for example
- Saber, e.g
- Pen's inferior, it's said
- Pen's inferior, in a saying
- Pen's inferior in strength, so they say
- Musketeer weapon
- Link's weapon in "The Legend of Zelda"
- King Arthur's Excalibur, for one
- It may have a good point
- Foil, saber, or épée
- Fighting blade
- Epee or rapier
- Epee or foil
- Drawn weapon
- Bilbo or scimitar
- "Kill Bill" weapon
- "Highlander" weapon
- "... shall perish with the ___" (Matthew)
- Entertainment with blades
- Fighting with chorus in challenges such as these
- Fencing weapon
- Dubbing need
- Duel tool
- Stellate : star :: xiphoid : ___
- Fencing unit?
- Old arena draw?
- Weapon used to slay the [circled letters]
- Zorro's weapon of choice
- Centurion weapon
- A cutting or thrusting weapon with a long blade
- Bladed weapon
- Scimitar, e.g
- Yataghan, e.g.
- Prince Valiant's weapon
- This may be hard to swallow
- Excalibur, e.g.
- Excalibur, for one
- D-Day beach
- Flynn prop
- Item less puissant than a pen
- Excalibur was one
- Side arm
- Excalibur, e.g
- Kind of dance or play
- Word with fish or grass
- Toledo product
- Threat for Damocles
- De Bergerac's weapon
- Second promise to produce weapon
- Blade finally opens a series of letters?
- D-Day beach sergeant's first news
- Cavalry weapon
- Knight's weapon
- Dueling weapon
- Fencing tool
- Thrusting weapon
- Symbol of power
- "Game of Thrones" weapon
- Symbol of justice
- Foil, e.g
- Duelist's weapon
- Swashbuckler's weapon of choice
- Piercing weapon
- Fencing need
- There's a point to it
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sword \Sword\ (s[=o]rd), n. [OE. swerd, AS. sweord; akin to OFries. swerd, swird, D. zwaard, OS. swerd, OHG. swert, G. schwert, Icel. sver[eth], Sw. sv["a]rd, Dan. sv[ae]rd; of uncertain origin.]
An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp-pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties.
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Hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power.
He [the ruler] beareth not the sword in vain.
--Rom. xiii. 4.She quits the balance, and resigns the sword.
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Destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension.
I came not to send peace, but a sword.
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4. The military power of a country.
He hath no more authority over the sword than over the law.
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(Weaving) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended. Sword arm, the right arm. Sword bayonet, a bayonet shaped somewhat like a sword, and which can be used as a sword. Sword bearer, one who carries his master's sword; an officer in London who carries a sword before the lord mayor when he goes abroad. Sword belt, a belt by which a sword is suspended, and borne at the side. Sword blade, the blade, or cutting part, of a sword. Sword cane, a cane which conceals the blade of a sword or dagger, as in a sheath. Sword dance.
A dance in which swords are brandished and clashed together by the male dancers.
--Sir W. Scott.-
A dance performed over swords laid on the ground, but without touching them.
Sword fight, fencing; a combat or trial of skill with swords; swordplay.
Sword grass. (Bot.) See Gladen.
Sword knot, a ribbon tied to the hilt of a sword.
Sword law, government by the sword, or by force; violence.
--Milton.Sword lily. (Bot.) See Gladiolus.
Sword mat (Naut.), a mat closely woven of yarns; -- so called from a wooden implement used in its manufacture.
Sword shrimp (Zo["o]l.), a European shrimp ( Pasiph[ae]a sivado) having a very thin, compressed body.
Sword stick, a sword cane.
To measure swords with one. See under Measure, v. t.
To put to the sword. See under Put.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English sweord, swyrd (West Saxon), sword (Northumbrian) "sword," from Proto-Germanic *swerdam (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian swerd, Old Norse sverð, Swedish svärd, Middle Dutch swaert, Dutch zwaard, Old High German swert, German Schwert "a sword"), related to Old High German sweran "to hurt," from *swertha-, literally "the cutting weapon," from PIE root *swer- (3) "to cut, pierce."\n
\nContrast with plowshare is from the Old Testament (Isaiah ii:4, Micah iv:3). Phrase put (originally do) to the sword "kill, slaughter" is recorded from mid-14c. An older Germanic word for it is in Old Saxon heoru, Gothic hairus "a sword."
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context weaponry English) A long-bladed weapon having a handle and sometimes a hilt and designed to stab, hew, or slice. 2 Someone paid to handle a sword. 3 (context tarot English) A suit in the minor arcana in tarot. 4 (context tarot English) A card of this suit. 5 (context weaving English) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A sword is a bladed weapon intended for both slashing and thrusting. The precise definition of the term varies with the historical epoch or the geographical region under consideration. A sword in the most narrow sense consists of a straight blade with two edges and a hilt, but depending on context, the term is also often used to refer to bladed weapons with a single edge (also referred to as a backsword).
Historically, the sword developed in the Bronze Age, evolving from the dagger; the earliest specimens date to about 1600 BC. The later Iron Age sword remained fairly short and without a crossguard. The spatha, as it developed in the Late Roman army, became the predecessor of the European sword of the Middle Ages, at first adopted as the Migration period sword, and only in the High Middle Ages, developed into the classical arming sword with crossguard. The word sword continues the Old English, sweord.
The use of a sword is known as swordsmanship or (in an early modern or modern context) as fencing. In the Early Modern period, western sword design diverged into roughly two forms, the thrusting swords and the sabers.
The thrusting swords such as the rapier and eventually the smallsword were designed to impale their targets quickly and inflict deep stab wounds. Their long and straight yet light and well balanced design made them highly maneuverable and deadly in a duel but fairly ineffective when used in a slashing or chopping motion. A well aimed lunge and thrust could end a fight in seconds with just the sword's point, leading to the development of a fighting style which closely resembles modern fencing.
The saber and similar blades such as the cutlass were built more heavily and were more typically used in warfare. Built for slashing and chopping at multiple enemies, oftentimes from atop a horse, the saber's long curved blade and slightly forward weight balance gave it a deadly character all its own on the battlefield. Most sabers also had sharp points and double edged blades, making them capable of piercing soldier after soldier in a cavalry charge. Sabers continued to see battlefield use until the late 19th century. The US Navy kept tens of thousands of sturdy cutlasses in their armory well into World War II and many were issued to marines in the Pacific as jungle machetes.
Non-European weapons called "sword" include single-edged weapons such as the Middle Eastern scimitar, the Chinese dao and the related Japanese katana. The Chinese jian is an example of a non-European double-edged sword, like the European models derived from the double-edged Iron Age sword.
A sword is a cutting and/or thrusting weapon.
Sword, Swords, or The Sword may also refer to:
Sword is a Canadian heavy metal band that was active in the 1980s and just announced a reunion for 2011.
Sword, in comics, may refer to:
- The Sword (comics), an Image Comics series from the Luna Brothers
- S.W.O.R.D. (comics), a Marvel Comics organisation that deals with alien threats
- Sword (Wildstorm), a Wildstorm character who first appeared in the Fire From Heaven crossover, he is an alternate universe version of Union
- Sword, the alter ego of Chic Carter, a Golden Age superhero who appeared in Smash Comics and Police Comics
- Sword (Ace Comics), a Golden Age character from Ace Comics
- Sword of Sorcery, a title featuring Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit) is an interoperability standard that allows digital repositories to accept the deposit of content from multiple sources in different formats (such as XML documents) via a standardized protocol. In the same way that the HTTP protocol allows any web browser to talk to any web server, so SWORD allows clients to talk to repository servers. SWORD is a profile (specialism) of the Atom Publishing Protocol, but restricts itself solely to the scope of depositing resources into scholarly systems.
Usage examples of "sword".
I will now go and skin that troll who went so nigh to slay thee, and break up the carcase, if thou wilt promise to abide about the door of the house, and have thy sword and the spear ready to hand, and to don thine helm and hauberk to boot.
Then the courage came into his body, and with a great might he abraid upon his feet, and smote the black and yellow knight upon the helm by an overstroke so fierce that the sword sheared away the third part of his head, as it had been a rotten cheese.
From their bases first at Turin, and then at Coblenz, they were accused of planning invasions of France on the heels of absolutist armies that would put good patriots and their women and children to the sword and raze their cities.
His sword trailed in his paralyzed hand as he glared, open-mouthed, stunned by the realization which was too abysmal and awful for the mind to grasp.
Sword has exempted the transaction from taxes in order to accelerate the buy-out.
Now the brothers would tear Achar apart in their hatred for each other, tear it apart until finally they stood sword to sword in the Chamber of the Moons.
Treating Raven like the dangerous predator he was, Adeem very carefully held the sword out to him.
The fierce Adelantado, finding himself surrounded by six assailants, who seemed to be directing their whole effort against his life, swung his sword in a berserk rage and slashed about him, to such good purpose that four or five of his assailants soon lay round him killed or wounded.
Terrible as were the losses of the Huguenots by fire and sword, considerable as were the defections from their ranks of those who found in the reformed Catholic church a spiritual refuge, still greater was the loss of the Protestant cause in failing to secure the adherence of such minds as Dolet and Rabelais, Ronsard and Montaigne, and of the thousands influenced by them.
Army of the United States, not for a moment looking for advancement there, not counting the cost, not offering his sword to the service of power, nor yet laying it down at the feet of the Government--he unsheathed it and took his stand in defence of the great principles asserted by Virginia in the Revolution, when she contended with Great Britain the right of every people to choose their own form of government.
The aeronaut carried a gun firing explosive bullets loaded with oxygen, and in addition, and true to the best tradition of Japan, a sword.
Thenceforward they may fight as it pleases them, ahorse, or afoot, with lance, with sword, or with dagger, but to the vanquished no mercy will be shown.
The French cavalrymen, more used to the sword than the carbine, were aiming high, but that common fault was small consolation amidst their bullets.
Now a sleet of bullets hissed through their ranks as they retired, and the gallant Lord Airlie, as modest and brave a soldier as ever drew sword, was struck through the heart.
Lilliputian ropes restraining a sleek, mechanical Gulliver, Ake hit the forward thrusters and the ship shot backwards out of the slot that had held it like a sword being pulled from a scabbard.