Sword

[sɔːd] or [sɔrd]

解释:

(noun.) a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard.

埃罗尔校对--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) 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.

(n.) Hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power.

(n.) Destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension.

(n.) The military power of a country.

(n.) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.

校对:沃尔多

同义词及近义词：

n. Sabre, broadsword, cutlass, falchion, cimeter, rapier, claymore.

校对:伍德罗

解释:

n. an offensive weapon with a long blade sharp upon one or both edges for cutting or thrusting: destruction by the sword or by war war military force: the emblem of vengeance or justice or of authority and power.—adj. Sword′-and-buck′ler fought with sword and buckler not the rapier: armed with sword and buckler.—ns. Sword′-arm -hand the arm hand that wields the sword; Sword′-bay′onet a bayonet shaped somewhat like a sword and used as one; Sword′-bear′er a public officer who carries the sword of state; Sword′-belt a military belt from which the sword is hung; Sword′bill a South American humming-bird with a bill longer than its body; Sword′-break′er an old weapon for grasping and breaking an adversary's sword; Sword′-cane -stick a cane or stick containing a sword; Sword′craft skill with the sword; military power; Sword′-cut a blow wound or scar caused by the edge of a sword; Sword′-dance a dance in which the display of naked swords or movements made with such form a part; Sword′-doll′ar a Scotch silver coin under James VI. worth 2s. 6d. in English money having a sword on the reverse; Sword′er (Shak.) a swordsman; Sword′fish a family of spiny-rayed Teleostean fishes sometimes 12 to 15 feet in length with a sword about 3 feet long formed from a compressed prolongation of the upper jaw; Sword′-flag the European water-flag or yellow iris; Sword′-grass a kind of sedge; Sword′-guard the part of a sword-hilt that protects the bearer's hand; Sword′-knot a ribbon tied to the hilt of a sword; Sword′-law government by the sword.—adj. Sword′less destitute of a sword.—ns. Sword′play fencing; Sword′player a fencer.—adj. Sword′-proof capable of resisting the blow or thrust of a sword.—n. Sword′-rack a rack for holding swords.—adj. Sword′-shaped ensiform.—ns. Swords′man a man skilled in the use of a sword; Swords′manship.

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