Broadsword
['brɔːdsɔːd] or ['brɔdsɔrd]
Definition
(noun.) a sword with a broad blade and (usually) two cutting edges; used to cut rather than stab.
Edited by Bernice--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore.
Typed by Elroy
Examples
- That's the plain state of the matter as it points itself out to a mere trooper with a blunt broadsword kind of a mind. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It is a broadsword to an oyster-knife. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The performance will commence this evening with a GRAND BROADSWORD COMBAT! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Thus speaking, he opened another hutch, and took out from it a couple of broadswords and bucklers, such as were used by the yeomanry of the period. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
Editor: Priscilla